Events
International Food Aid and Development Conference, June 27-29 2011
Kansas City, MO
This is the thirteenth IFADC conference, with representatives from the food and agriculture industries, maritime and rail transportation, ports, private voluntary and non-governmental organizations, and US and foreign governments.
Click here to read Deputy US Maritime Administrator Orlando Gotay’s remarks at the conference.
Click here to read Acting Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services U.S. Department of Agriculture, Michael Scuse’s remarks at the conference.
Alliance for Global Food Security briefing at the House Committee on Agriculture on Monday, May 23, 2011
Private Voluntary Organizations and Cooperatives briefing on how food aid is integrated into programs that improve nutrition, agriculture and food systems. For May 23, 2011 briefing materials, please click on the links below:
US Food Aid Programs, Alliance for Global Food Security, May 23, 2011
PCI & ACDI-VOCA, Bangladesh Food for Peace Title II Development Porgram
Land O’Lakes, Food for Progress, Kenya
Joint Aid Management, McGovern Dole Food for Ed, Angola
IRD Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Sengal Cashew Value Chains, Food for Progress
Nov 11-12, G20 Nations Meeting in Seoul, Korea to Discuss World Economy
(Reuters) – Leaders at the Group of 20 (G20) top world economies meeting in Seoul this week will review their progress on pledges to tighten banking and market rules after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Summary of Previous G20 meetings
The focal point was the “Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth,” which was a commitment to adopt domestic policies that would foster healthier global growth less prone to the booms and busts that marked the last decade.
The idea was that exporting powerhouses such as China and Germany would act to bolster domestic demand, while the borrow-and-spend countries such as the United States and Britain would embrace savings and investment.
Pres. Obama’s Letter to the G20
(Reuters) – Following is a text of a letter from President Barack Obama to G20 leaders due to meet in Seoul from Thursday.
The letter was sent on Tuesday.
“As we approach the Seoul Summit, the world is looking to us to work together to strengthen the global economic recovery, continue to repair the financial system, and promote the stability of global markets.
“The United States will do its part to restore strong growth, reduce economic imbalances, and calm markets. A strong recovery that creates jobs, income and spending is the most important contribution the United States can make to the global recovery.
EAC summit to tackle food security, climate change
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November 08, 2010
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 8, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) — East Africa Community (EAC) ‘s heads of state and government will meet in Arusha in northeastern Tanzanian on Dec. 5 this year to discuss food security and climate change, the local media reported on Monday.
The meeting would be chaired by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of East African Community Uledi Musa was quoted as saying.
During the meeting with the heads of state and government, food security and climate change would feature as the main agenda items because “if there is no food, it means people will not be able to produce and improve the economy of the nations,” Mosa said.
The heads of state will come up with strategies of increasing food securities in EAC, Mosa said, noting that Tanzania is the only country with massive potential of fertile land.
He added that the meeting would conclude the development of EAC food strategy, which needed to be completed soon so that the community could have good guidelines.
“The meeting will discuss ways of ensuring enough food for our countries,” he said.
The EAC countries have been given time to conduct researches on employment whereby, each county should set aside its budget for the exercise, which is separate form the general regional budget, according to Musa.
In general, EAC countries create 2,000 jobs for young people annually, meaning that in a span of five years, 10,000 young men and women will be employed in different sectors.
During the 13th meeting of EAC ministers held in Arusha on Oct. 18 to Oct. 22, issues agreed was setting up of the secretariat to prepare a friendly-system of measuring implementation of the EAC Common Market, the Tanzanian Deputy Permanent Secretary said.
EAC leaders usually hold their annual ordinary summits at end of each calendar year.
The EAC is the regional intergovernmental organization consisting of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda with its headquarters in Tanzania’s Arusha.
The bloc covers a population of 133.5 million with a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 74.5 billion U.S. dollars, and a development strategy of growing up from a Customs Union, a Common Market to a Monetary Union and eventually a Political Federation.