US Farm Bill and the Future of Food Aid

From empty sky Sat Dec 1 2012, 10:04:00

This piece from Ed Carr's Open The Echo Chamber blog sounds the alarm about the delay in sorting out the US farm bill. A delay that could have serious food aid consequences. I'm not a huge fan of food aid but the aid system is heavily reliant on donated food, particularly from the US. The system, this large, cumbersome, bureaucratic, lumbering beast. However much we may argue that the reliance on

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