Food Aid

Debates About U.S. Food Assistance 2018

June 14, 2018 For more than a decade, a movement to reverse US policies for food aid has built momentum among some analysts and Europeans who have lobbied hard to change how the United States provides food aid overseas. The arguments have been largely the same for over 15 years, and they come largel...

Global Food Security Act a critical step forward in ending hunger

If Congress passes the Global Food Security Act of 2015, it will be taking a critical step toward ending global hunger and malnutrition in our lifetime. Food security — and the underlying political, economic and environmental stability that make it possible — is a prerequisite for sustained deve...

Church World Service applauds passage of food aid funding and reforms

CWS, International Aid Groups Applaud Bipartisan Food Aid Reform Legislation   June 4, 2014 WASHINGTON – CWS today joined a coalition of organizations working to fight hunger, poverty and malnutrition around the world in welcoming proposed bipartisan legislation that would provide up to 9 mi...

Kill the Food for Peace program? What a horrible idea from our own government!

April 27, 2013 For more than 57 years, the United States has given food, through what is known as the Food for Peace Program, to hundreds of millions of people who were starving and malnourished. This program has used safe and nutritious US produced food to help famine victims, malnourished children...

A compelling reform of United States food aid

Since the Eisenhower administration, the United States generally has done food aid in a certain way: grow and pack it in this country, ship it across the world on U.S.-flagged ships, then deliver it through American charities, which sell a portion of the food to fund their other programs. Not coinci...

A Global Context for Hospitality

September 11, 2001 will be remembered in history as a day that changed the world. We are now living in a time of great danger, and equally great opportunity. The ways in which our world will be changed for better or for worse will be shaped by our actions. Above all, September 11 has underscored the...

Monetization of Food Aid: Reconsidering U.S. Policy and Practice

“Monetization” is one of the more misunderstood and increasingly controversial forms of US food assistance abroad. It has rarely been reviewed by an independent entity. In June 2009, the DC-based non-profit, the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, published an important, 56-page rep...

Reviewed By: Steven Hansch

The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid International Charity

New York: The Free Press, 1997. Hardcover, 287 pp. ISBN: 0684828006. Every few years, a major publication critiques the aid industry not merely on the merits of specific projects, but on the principles on which aid agencies do their business. The Road to Hell, by Michael Maren, a former relief worke...

Reviewed By: Steven Hansch

“Local” purchasing of food aid? It may be good to think twice about this idea.

May 30, 2008 There is a great deal of concern at this time about rising food prices, shortages of food and the inability of poor people around the world to obtain the food they need for themselves and their families. These are serious problems that deserve both immediate and longer-term attention. W...

Fifty Years of International Food Aid – Time To Change?

Fifty years ago, on July 10, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed Public Law 480 – the Agricultural Trade, Development and Assistance Act – popularly known as the Food for Peace Program. Remarkable for its longevity as well as its consistency in providing food to those in need throughout the...