Outgoing U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Anthony Banbury penned an OpEd in the New York Times describing the body as a failure…
The World Health Organization, sharply criticized for its missteps responding to Ebola in West Africa, announced a $100 million contingency…
Advocates for international food aid claimed victory this week after the Senate cut a provision that they say would have…
The United States spent more money to ship, handle and store food aid than on the actual food. A total…
Many experts say that the current system of how the U.S. government does food aid is plenty corrupted – at least if you assume the goal is to feed the poor and hungry. The current system requires that we buy the food from American farmers and ship it on American-flagged vessels. No other country does food aid this way, because it is so inefficient and, well, blatantly self-serving.
Flickr, pinehurst19475 The recent defeat in Congress of legislation aimed at improving the efficiencies of our foreign efforts to feed…
Maybe you’ve heard of the nearly trillion-dollar U.S. Farm Bill.
Haitians Receive Boxes of USAID Food AidUSAID Food aid reforms came under the spotlight last month when the Obama Administration…