Jul 31 2012
Noting "President Barack Obama's Feed the Future initiative seeks to end hunger through increasing investment in agricultural development, particularly for the vast legion of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa," Roger Thurow, a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, writes in a post in the ONE blog, "Central to this movement is that Feed the Future and U.S. leadership to end hunger through agricultural development become a cornerstone of American policy no matter who is in the White House or which party controls Congress." He writes that PEPFAR "was embraced and authorized by Congress in an unusual display of bipartisan support," and says, "Feed the Future is worthy of similar bipartisan support and unity of purpose. It can stand alongside PEPFAR as an example of what America does in the face of crisis and great need" (7/27).
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