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

... a rice crop” in Haiti – something we’ve examined on this blog before. Maura O’Connor reports from Stuttgart, Arkansas, where: …the farm bill has been a tremendous source of anxiety over the last year. ...

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

... annual rice consumption in 1988 to around 15 percent now, CEPR published a report on food aid  that proposed “that international donors seeking to support Haiti’s agricultural sector and provide food to ...

3. 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. ...

4. France Increases Local Rice Procurement for Food Aid; Will the US Follow Suit?
(Matching tags: usaid, france, agriculture, rice)

... purchasing food aid locally. This new initiative significantly increases the amount to be purchased locally with France now committed to buying over 1,000 metric tons of rice from local producers in 2011. ...

5. Has Haiti's Food Aid Been Shelved?
(Matching tags: fao, agriculture, rice)

After world food prices rose to a record level in February, World Bank President Robert Zoellick commented that food prices have risen to “dangerous levels and threaten tens of millions of poor people”. ...