And you thought foreign aid was primarily about helping the world's poor. National Public Radio had a great segment today on the domestic politics of U.S. food aid. This Food for Peace program provides food aid to developing societies. Currently, Congress requires that the money purchase American agricultural products and ship them in American-owned vessels. The Bush administration is proposing that some of the money allocated for this program be used to buy food "locally" (in the country or region receiving the assistance) rather than buying and shipping American food. Buying food locally would enable the money to buy more food, respond to crises more quickly, and support rather than depress local farm prices.
The congressional response is predictable; more surprising is the response from aid NGOs. The segment is short and quite interesting.
IPE @ UNC
IPE@UNC is a group blog maintained by faculty and graduate students in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The opinions expressed on these pages are our own, and have nothing to do with UNC.
Bookshelf
Tags
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(142)
-
▼
March
(18)
- Protectionism by Other Means
- Blinder , Trade and Jobs, Again
- Passive Voice
- Outsourcing the Service Sector?
- U.S.-China Trade
- Linking Trade and Labor Standards
- Home Ownership and Labor Mobility
- John Edwards on Global Poverty
- Track MDG Progress
- Rising Land Prices in Iowa
- Trade Politics by Any Other Name Would Still Smell...
- Giving Fish to the World's Poorest (but not too many)
- The Domestic Politics of "Food For Peace"
- Linking Trade and Labor Standards (Again)
- Sherrod Brown on American Trade Policy
- Trade and Wage Insurance
- Still Negotiating...
- Eroding American Economic Sovereignty
-
▼
March
(18)
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
The Domestic Politics of "Food For Peace"
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment