Aug 12 2011
"Spearheaded by USAID, President Obama's food security initiative - Feed the Future - is helping countries develop their own agricultural sectors so they can feed themselves," USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah writes in a post on the agency's "IMPACTblog." He describes several projects underway in Kenya and Ethiopia aimed at improving agriculture, livestock and health. "These programs are already making a difference. That is why - even though this is the worst drought in 60 years - it is not the worst famine in 60 years," he writes (8/10).
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