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Posts Tagged: Food & AgricultureHouse Cuts President’s FY2011 Development BudgetJuly 1, 2010Posted by Sarah Jane Staats in Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Tags: Afghanistan, Budget, Food & Agriculture, Food Security, HIV/AIDS, MCA/MCC, On the Hill, Pakistan
House appropriators marked up the FY2011 foreign affairs spending bill at $52.656 billion yesterday. The subcommittee mark up is roughly $4 billion above last year’s enacted levels, but also $4 billion below the president’s request for FY2011. My takeaway: this budget looks like more of the same and is a long way from a new approach to global development. The only areas increased above the president’s FY2011 request levels are: HIV/AIDS, refugees, education (including basic education and cultural exchanges) and water. There is no change in funding for Israel, Egypt, Jordan or the Peace Corps. All other programs are cut below the president’s request. On the flip side, the bill contains modest increases above last year’s enacted levels for everything except: Afghanistan, Iraq, counter narcotics, refugees, and voluntary peacekeeping operations. Read More… 2 Comments »Feed the Future: A New Way for U.S. Development but Reflections of the PastMay 28, 2010Posted by Sarah Jane Staats in Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Tags: Food & Agriculture
The Obama administration’s new Feed the Future initiative is big—$3.5 billion over 3 years—and bold. It has been touted as “a new way of doing development” and aims to reach 40 million people, including 25 million children, in ten years in an effort to tackle chronic hunger and achieve global food security. The objective and approach of the new initiative are laudable. Indeed, it is hard to find fault within the new initiative; the challenge is what lies just beyond its reach: a U.S. global development strategy and a streamlined organizational structure that reduces sector and initiative-based fragmentation in our aid architecture. Read More… Comment »Food for Thought: New Guide to U.S. Food Security Initiative Outlines Detailed, Thoughtful ApproachMay 28, 2010Posted by Steve Rosenzweig in Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Tags: Food & Agriculture
Strategy documents from the U.S. and other donors over the last few years almost always leave something to be desired. The documents are usually vague. They’re frequently heavy on rhetoric but light on action and measurable objectives, and they often propose doing a lot of everything everywhere rather than laying out a detailed and focused yet flexible approach. That’s why the new guide to the U.S. “Feed the Future” global food security initiative is such a breath of fresh air. The document, released last Thursday and previewed in a speech by USAID Administrator Raj Shah at a symposium on global agriculture and food security hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, offers a coherent, thoughtful, detailed strategy for the new three-year, $3.5 billion program. Read More… Comment »
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