Last Ditch Effort for Food Aid Reform
What's at stake: Between 4 million and 10 million more hungry people overseas could be fed -- for the same amount of money -- if proposed changes are enacted, according to experts at a leading...
View ArticleTaking On Food Aid Reform, Metrics, the Refugee Crisis, and TOMS Shoes
Start your week off right with the latest Humanosphere podcast! We appreciated having Tom Murphy, Humanosphere’s East Coast correspondent, on the program so much in the previous edition that we invited...
View ArticleWhat explains the weird way Congress voted down food aid reform?
Flickr, pinehurst19475 The recent defeat in Congress of legislation aimed at improving the efficiencies of our foreign efforts to feed the hungry didn’t fall into the normal partisan divisions, or even...
View ArticleUnited States wastes billions of dollars to ship food aid
The United States spent more money to ship, handle and store food aid than on the actual food. A total of $17.9 billion was spent on food aid between 2003 and 2012 by the United States. Of that total,...
View ArticleSenators say US needs to reform food aid to save lives amid historic hunger...
The U.S. government's approach to delivering food aid overseas is endangering lives, say a bipartisan pair of senators who recently returned from a visit to a refugee camp in Uganda. Republican Sen....
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