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Democracy in Development: U.S. Food Aid Reform

Women carry bags of rice from USAID in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince February 18, 2010 (Carlos Barria/Courtesy Reuters).

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  • Isobel Coleman
    Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program

Yesterday on my blog, I discussed the Obama administration’s proposed reforms to U.S. food aid. As I note:

A 2010 interview with former USAID administrator Andrew Natsios serves as a sobering reminder of what’s at stake. “I’ve seen children starve to death when there was a surplus of food in their local markets, but there was no one to buy the food because we didn’t have the money to do that, so people died.”

You can read the full post here.