Democracy in Development: U.S. Food Aid Reform
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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).
Women carry bags of rice from USAID in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince February 18, 2010 (Carlos Barria/Courtesy Reuters).

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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.”

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