CGD in the News

Trump’s farm aid solution: A strategy in search of a problem (Politico)

May 10, 2019

From the article:

But any efforts to boost to U.S. international food aid programs through what’s known as in-kind or donated shipments would be a 180-degree turn from a two decade effort of trying to get away from “dumping U.S. commodities in foreign markets,” said Kim Elliott, a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development.

“It sounds to me more like a political gesture than anything else,” she said.