CGD examines House Budget Committee recommendation to eliminate Feed the Future

In this post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Blog," Connie Veillette, director of CGD's rethinking U.S. foreign assistance initiative, discusses the passage of the House Budget Committee's "budget alternative last week that calls for reduced spending for international affairs." "Perhaps the oddest and most counter-productive recommendation is to eliminate Feed the Future but continue U.S. food aid, also known as PL 480, in its stead," she writes, continuing, "PL 480 is not a long-term program to promote food security. ... It is a 'feed the now' rather than a 'feed the future' approach" (3/26).