Food for Development Program Constrained by Unresolved Management and Policy Questions
ID-81-32
Published: Jun 23, 1981. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 1981.
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The implementation of the 1977 Food for Development amendment to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act was reviewed. This is the principal legislation under which the United States provides food aid to friendly countries. The review was conducted because of the emphasis in recent years on more closely relating U.S. food aid with recipient country self-help efforts and because of some congressional concerns that the food for development program had not been implemented more rapidly and on a larger scale.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| U.S. Agency for International Development | The Administrator, AID, drawing upon USDA and other technical expertise, should prepare the detailed guidance to U.S. overseas missions for the preparation of specific title III proposals. |
Closed
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| U.S. Agency for International Development | The Administrator, AID, drawing upon USDA and other technical expertise, should provide technical assistance, when requested, to U.S. missions and recipient governments in the preparation of specific title III proposals and in the evaluation of progress made under specific title III agreements. |
Closed
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| Department of Agriculture | The Secretary of Agriculture, in the Department's role as Chair of the Development Coordination Committee Subcommittee on Food Aid, should establish or refine as necessary, standards: (1) tailoring the terms and self-help measures of food aid to the purposes for which such assistance is provided and to the needs of recipient countries; and (2) basing the concessionality of future assistance on the degree of recipient countries' self-help performance. |
Closed
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| U.S. Agency for International Development | The Administrator, AID, drawing upon USDA and other technical expertise, should develop specific country food and agriculture analyses to serve as the foundation for program planning, not only for title III but for the larger issues of integrating U.S. food assistance with other U.S. assistance programs and those of other donors. |
Closed
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