1. U.S. Food Aid Reform Opposed by Aid’s Intended Recipients: U.S. Special Interests
(Matching tags: usaid, agriculture, us rice, food aid)

... local agriculture by dumping cheap crops on the market at a price too low for local farmers to compete.  ...

2. A Closer Look at USAID Food Aid Programs in Haiti
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, agriculture, food aid, world vision, crs)

A review of publicly available reports and recently released documents obtained via an Associated Press (AP) Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

3. Food Aid Undermines Local Producers
(Matching tags: usaid, fao, food crisis, chemonics, agriculture, comet rice, us rice, food aid)

*This post has been edited slightly for accuracy. The AP reports today on the effects of US rice on Haitian farmers: Subsidized U.S. rice has flooded Haiti for decades. Now, after the Jan. 12 quake, ...

4. Is USAID Mainly Serving U.S. Interests?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, usaid, agriculture, food aid)

An op-ed in Bloomberg Businessweek yesterday lays out the case for USAID reform, highlighting the case of contractors in Haiti (and citing this blog) as an example. The piece, by Charles Kenny of the Center ...

5. The U.S. State Department’s Uninspiring Report to Congress
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, shelter, agriculture, debt relief, cholera)

The Office of the Haiti Special Coordinator under the U.S. State Department has issued a new report to the U.S. Congress as required under the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010. The new report covers ...

6. Assessing the Beginnings of Haiti’s Latest Unnatural Disaster
(Matching tags: partners in health, doctors without borders, agriculture, hurricane season, ijdh, idps, cholera, housing)

Relief organizations and the Haitian government are still attempting to assess the extent of the damage that Hurricane Sandy left in its wake. The Haitian government belatedly declared a month-long state ...

7. Over 50 Dead from Hurricane Sandy in Haiti
(Matching tags: agriculture, idp, cholera)

... their tent made little difference as the rain poured in through holes in the tent, or seeped in below the walls. As one man succinctly put it, “everything is wet”. Agriculture In August, tropical storm ...

8. Will New Factory Jobs Offer Wages and Conditions that "Will Allow Haitians to Feel Proud"?
(Matching tags: garment industry, agriculture, bill clinton, garment factories)

A recent report by Haiti Grassroots Watch examines Haiti’s much trumpeted apparel manufacturing, planned for significant expansion with the new Caracol Industrial Park, which is “being built with 124 million ...

9. Barriers to Reform: The Big Business of Shipping Food Aid
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, usaid, agriculture, us rice, food aid)

Between January 14 and February 26 2011, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) signed nine contracts with three shipping companies to send 73,000 Metric Tons of rice and other ...

10. Paul Farmer's "Haiti After the Earthquake" - An Impressive Balancing Act
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, agriculture, ngos, elections, paul farmer)

Dr. Paul Farmer, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, released a new book last week to coincide with the 18-month ...