U.S. Must Implement Long-Term Strategies In Food Security
In a post on USAID's "IMPACTblog," USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah describes the U.S. response to the drought in the Horn of Africa, as well as his visit on Wednesday to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. "Since October 2010, the U.S. Government has provided $459 million in life-saving aid to over 4.4 million people in the eastern Horn. But that is no comfort today to those who have no food or water for their children, or for themselves. We must implement long-term strategies that can help prevent this kind of suffering once and for all," he writes, citing President Obama's Feed the Future initiative as an example. "Only through a long-term sustained investment in their own food security can these countries escape the vicious cycle of famine of food aid we've once again witnessed," Shah writes (7/20).
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