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Can the President's food security plan lead to broader reforms?

OxfamAmerica
Amidst the ongoing aid reform debate in Washington, President Obama has launched the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative (GHFSI), a bold vision for making US foreign aid a better tool for helping people feed themselves. In Congress, Senators Lugar and Casey have introduced the Global Food Security Act (S.384) to implement the President's strategy.
But can the initiative show the way for broader reform by turning principle into practice?
 
For the GHFSI to succeed, the US needs to operate in true partnership with countries, and make long-term commitments to agriculture. But US aid agencies still have a ways to go: of all the US aid to Haiti in the last three years, 13% arrived in the form of food aid, while only 1% was for agriculture, which is how two-thirds of Haitian people make a living.
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