Studies and Reports
2004
Over the past 50 years, the Food for Peace program has sent 106 million metric tons to the hungry of the world, feeding billions of people and saving countless lives. The program depends on the unparalleled productivity of American farmers and the American agricultural system. Without this vast system there would be no Food for Peace program. On average, American generosity provides 60 percent of the world’s food aid, feeding millions of desperately hungry people every year.
Food for Peace 50th Anniversary Book2010
This report is based on a master set of data that has been compiled by an Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, in response to the wishes of the General Assembly for periodic assessment of progress towards the MDGs. The Goals represent human needs and basic rights that every individual around the world should be able to enjoy—freedom from extreme poverty and hunger; quality education, productive and decent employment, good health and shelter; the right of women to give birth without risking their lives; and a world where environmental sustainability is a priority, and women and men live in equality.
UN Millennium Development GoalsJuly 2010
This report continues the series of food assessments begun in the late 1970s. Food security in 70 developing countries is estimated to have improved between 2009 and 2010, in part due to economic recovery in many of these countries. The number of food-insecure people in the developing countries analyzed by ERS researchers is estimated to decrease about 5 percent from 2009 to 882 million in 2010. The number of food-insecure people at the aggregate level will not improve much over the next decade,
USDA ERS Food Security AssessmentJune 2009
This paper explores methods, frameworks, strengths and challenges of school feeding in three countries—Mali, Chile, and India. The programs highlighted were selected not only for their geographic diversity, but also for the types of programs they represent. The country experiences draw on four major themes—opportunity, community commitment, innovation, and political will. While there is no single model that can be replicated around the world, these country experiences can serve as valuable lessons from which others can learn.
Rachel Winch International Approaches to School FeedingFood and Agriculture Organization 2010-2011
Foreword
This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture addresses Women in agriculture: closing the gender gap for development. The agriculture sector is underperforming in many developing countries, and one of the key reasons is that women do not have equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. This report clearly confirms that the Millennium Development Goals on gender equality (MDG 3) and poverty and food security (MDG 1) are mutually reinforcing. We must promote gender equality and empower women in agriculture to win, sustainably, the fight against hunger and extreme poverty. I firmly believe that achieving MDG 3 can help us achieve MDG 1. (Full Report on “The State of Food and Agriculture”)
The State of Food and AgricultureThe United States is committed to the promotion of global food security through its international food assistance and other foreign assistance programs. In fiscal year (FY) 2008, the United States provided more than $2.8 billion from U.S. food aid programs to developing countries, reaching tens of millions of people worldwide. The following summary shows U.S. food assistance allocated by legislative authority for FY 2008.
United States International Food Assistance ReportIn FY 2009 USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP) provided approximately 2.4 million metric tons (MT) of food, valued at approximately $2.2 billion, benefiting people in 44 countries worldwide.*
USAID’s Office of Food for Peace supports emergency programs that help those affected by conflict and natural disasters, such as drought, as well as long-term, non-emergency programs that seek to address the underlying causes of hunger, such as by increasing agricultural productivity and improving maternal and child health.
Office of Food for Peace 2009 StatisticsSeptember 2010
This report is prepared by The Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, monitors crop prospects and food security situation at global, regional, national and sub-national levels and warns of impending food difficulties and emergencies. The report notes that 30 countries around the world are in need of external assistance as a result of crop failures, conflict or insecurity, natural disasters, and high domestic food prices. The food and nutrition situation remains critical in parts of the Sahel.
FAO Report on Crops Prospects and Food SituationReleased in September 2010, this is a report by the World Agricultural Outlook Board analyzing the supply and demand for commodities like Wheat, Coarse Grains, Rice, Oil Seeds, Sugar, Livestock, Poultry and Dairy.
World Agricultural Supply and Demand EstimatesThis presentation outlines steps to integrate livestock programs. Livestock plays an important role in the lives and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers across the globe.
Leland Fellows: Livestock Interventions to Address Acute and Chronic Hunger for Land O’LakesMay 2010
The Feed the Future Guide describes the strategic approach and implementation structures of Feed the Future (FTF), the U.S. global hunger and food security initiative. It is intended to inform partners and stakeholders about the development of FTF and how principles are translated into actions on the ground.
Feed the Future GuideOn behalf of President Obama, it is my pleasure to submit the Congressional Budget Justifications for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for Fiscal Year 2011.
This budget represents more than financial allocations. It represents new priorities, new approaches, and a renewed commitment to use the resources of the State Department and USAID smartly and strategically to get the best possible results for the American people.
Our work is ambitious. Our times demand nothing less. We are working with partners around the world to bring stability to volatile regions, reverse the spread of violent extremism, stabilize the global economy, decrease extreme poverty, demolish transnational criminal networks, fulfill President Obama’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons, stop health pandemics, and address the threat of climate change.
These are serious challenges. They also represent opportunities for the United States to provide critical leadership, strengthen existing partnerships, forge new ones, and advance stability, prosperity, and opportunity for more of the world’s people—and, in doing so, to protect our own security, promote our interests, and lay the foundation for a more peaceful and prosperous future.
We at the State Department and USAID are ready and eager to take the lead in carrying out the President’s foreign policy agenda. Indeed, our work has already begun. In the year since I was sworn in as Secretary of State, our agencies have significantly increased our efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; launched strategic initiatives to address food security, global health, and climate change and to promote global engagement; and begun a full-scale review of how we do business as we rebuild our workforces, both at State and USAID. We are committed to ensuring that we spend our resources wisely, make the most of our people’s talent, and maximize the impact of every dollar we spend. This budget reflects that commitment.
Congressional Budget for Fiscal Year 2011The objective of the Food Aid Convention 1999, the latest in a long series of such multilateral cooperation instruments since 1967, is to contribute to world food security and to improve the ability of the international community to respond to emergency food situations and other food needs of developing countries. Under the FAC, donor countries pledge to provide specified minimum amounts of food aid to developing countries with the greatest needs, irrespective of fluctuations in world food prices and supplies.
Food Aid Convention 1999