International Food Assistance Key Issues For Congressional Oversight
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Author | : Jacquelyn L. Williams-Bridgers |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 143792347X |
The number of individuals experiencing hunger has grown to more than 1 billion worldwide in 2009, due to the global economic crisis. International food assistance includes both emergency food aid and long-term food security programs. Due to rising food prices, increasing conflicts, poverty, and natural disasters, in 2007, a record 47 countries -- 27 in Africa -- faced food crises requiring emergency assistance. To address these emergencies, countries provide food aid as part of a humanitarian response to address acute hunger through either in-kind donations of food or cash donations. This report: updates U.S. agencies' responses to previous international food assistance recommendations; and identifies potential oversight questions for Congress. Illustrations.
Author | : United States Government Accountability Office |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
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ISBN | : 9781976407222 |
International food assistance : key issues for congressional oversight : report to congressional committees.
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2009 |
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The number of individuals experiencing hunger has grown to more than 1 billion worldwide in 2009, up from a record 963 million in 2008, according to the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). International food assistance includes both emergency food aid and long-term food security programs. Due to rising food prices, increasing conflicts, poverty, and natural disasters, in 2007, a record 47 countries - 27 located in Africa - faced food crises requiring emergency assistance. While food aid has helped to address the immediate nutritional requirements of some vulnerable people in the short term, it has not addressed the underlying causes of persistent food insecurity. As the largest donor to international food assistance, contributing over half of all food aid supplies to alleviate hunger and support development, the United States plays an important role in responding to emergency food aid needs and ensuring global food security. The U.S. administration continues to commit to international food assistance by pledging U.S. leadership in developing a new global approach to hunger and the Secretary of State has emphasized the importance of a comprehensive approach to sustainable systems of agriculture in rural areas worldwide. Enclosed are a series of papers highlighting key issues to assist in developing this new global approach to hunger and to help shape oversight agendas to evaluate these efforts. Our objectives were to (1) update U.S. agencies' responses to GAO's previous international food assistance recommendations and (2) identify potential oversight questions for congressional consideration. We have identified five issues for Congressional consideration to ensure more efficient and effective international food assistance: (1) coordination and integration, (2) needs assessments and market information, (3) transportation and logistics, (4) nutrition and food quality control, and (5) monitoring and evaluation.
Author | : United States. Government Accountability Office |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Food relief |
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Author | : United States Government Accountability Office |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
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ISBN | : 9781976196287 |
In passing the Food for Peace Act in 2008, Congress authorized up to $22 million annually for fiscal years 2009 to 2012 to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of nonemergency food aid programs. Congress also required USAID to report on its oversight of these programs and the Comptroller General to review and report to Congress on USAID's report. Through analysis of agency documents; interviews with agency officials, experts, and partners; and visits to Bangladesh and Haiti, this mandated report reviews (1) USAID's plans and actions to improve its monitoring and evaluation of nonemergency food aid programs and (2) the extent to which USAID has integrated its monitoring and evaluation of nonemergency food aid with program management.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2017-09-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976462221 |
U.S. international food aid programs : oversight and accountability : hearing before the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, July 9, 2015.
Author | : United States. Government Accountability Office |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2017-07-26 |
Genre | : Economic assistance |
ISBN | : 9781973924944 |
International food assistance, USAID has controls for implementation and support costs but should strengthen financial oversight: report to the Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives. " In recent years, USAID has awarded about $1.4 billion annually for international food assistance projects under Title II of the Food for Peace Act (Title II). This funding has traditionally been used to provide U.S.-purchased commodities to food-insecure...
Author | : Douglas Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 9781634832700 |
For almost six decades, the United States has played a leading role in global efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition and to enhance world food security through international food aid assistance--primarily through either the donation or sale on concessional terms of U.S. agricultural commodities. Objectives of U.S. foreign food aid include providing emergency and humanitarian assistance in response to natural or manmade disasters and promoting agricultural development and food security. This book includes a description of U.S. international food aid programs under current law; several important policy issues related to U.S. international food aid; and describes Administration and congressional proposals intended to change the nature of U.S. food international aid. This book also reviews the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) processes for awarding and modifying cash-based food assistance projects and assesses the extent to which USAID and its implementing partners have implemented financial controls to help ensure appropriate oversight of such projects.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : International broadcasting |
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Author | : Melissa D. Ho |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1437929680 |
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The U.S. has played a leading role in global efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition and to enhance world food security through internat. food aid activities. The development and implementation of a U.S. global food security initiative, and commitments made by global leaders to support agr. develop., have increased Congress¿s focus on U.S. internat. food aid programs. Contents of this report: (1) Program Descriptions: Food for Peace Act; Sect. 416(b); Food for Progress; McGovern-Dole Internat. Food for Educ. and Child Nutrition Program; Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust; (2) Funding of Food Aid; (3) Issues for Congress: Aid Effectiveness; Demand-Driven Aid Strategies; Cash vs. Commodities: Local or Regional Procurement. Illus.