Tag archives for Food Security Month
Focus on Nutrition: Creating Inclusive Partnerships and Deepening our Knowledge
Cross-posted from DipNote, the U.S. Department of State Official Blog Author: Ertharin Cousin, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies in Rome. Recently, I visited Bangladesh to find out how you feed a country that has half the population of the United States squeezed into an area the size of the state of Iowa. One [...]
Food Voucher Program Will Assist Sudanese Families
Submitted by Angela Stephens Most U.S. food assistance to Sudan is “in-kind” aid—food that is grown by farmers in the United States, purchased on the open market, then shipped to Sudan. Voucher programs, on the other hand, offer an alternative and complementary approach that gives families access to foods they are already familiar with and [...]
Food Security Month @ USAID: Expanding Our Toolkit in the Fight Against Global Hunger
Originally published in DipNote,the official blog of the U.S. Department of State. About the Author: Jose W. Fernandez serves as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs. I am halfway around the world from Washington, and on October 6, I participated in the Indonesia Joint Agriculture and Investment Forum. I traveled to [...]
Pic of the Week
The twelve members of the Wanawake Kwanza (Women First) growers association in Tanzania, have received Feed the Future support through USAID to boost their incomes and improve nutrition in the village. After only two months of growing vegetables on a single acre plot, these women have saved nearly $500. Based on their success, Maza village [...]
Food Security Month @ USAID: Linking Agriculture, Economic Growth, and Nutrition
By Kimberly Flowers Throughout October USAID will be highlighting our broad-based work in food security – which spans from emergency food aid assistance through the Food for Peace Program to the game-changing global hunger initiative called Feed the Future. Our development programs overseas are linking vulnerable populations to opportunities for economic growth and linking agricultural [...]
