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

... (USAID) has spent over $200 million on Title II food aid in Haiti since the earthquake. Title II food aid, administered by USAID and implemented by NGOs and intergovernmental organizations (primarily the ...

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

The New York Times reported yesterday that the Obama administration plans to change the way U.S. food assistance to other countries is conducted. The reforms, according to the Times’ Ron Nixon, would notably ...

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)

... – were the World Bank, the U.N. World Food Program, Chemonics (whose work in Haiti we have examined on this blog), and John Snow, Inc.) Kenny also describes problems with USAID’s food assistance to developing ...

5. Three Years Later Round-up: Clinton Edition
(Matching tags: aid distribution, food aid, bill clinton, clinton-bush fund, rice)

... Policy magazine has taken a cue from Clinton’s now (in)famous mea culpa that U.S. food aid policy “may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas,” but also resulted in the “lost capacity to produce ...

6. Local Purchases of Rice as Food Aid Overstated
(Matching tags: usaid, france, us rice, food aid, rice policy, transparency, rice)

In addition to the problems of allocating food aid discussed in the previous post, another significant problem is the lack of local procurement, which can be more effective than importing in emergency ...

7. World Bank Report Finds Allocation of Emergency Food Aid Not Effective in Targeting Most Vulnerable
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, food crisis, food aid, world bank, rice)

After the January earthquake, a number of donors and NGOs began large scale food distribution programs. Post earthquake surveys had found a large spike in food insecure households directly after the earthquake. ...

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

... commodities in Title II emergency food aid to Haiti, public records from the Federal Procurement Database System show. The contracts in total cost taxpayers over $18 million dollars, as shown in the table ...

9. Sacrificing Food Sovereignty for Food Aid
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, chemonics, agriculture, food aid)

The AP’s Trenton Daniel put a spotlight on rising food prices in Haiti over the weekend. Daniel writes: Soaring food prices aren't new in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and heavily ...