June 03, 2008
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on international food security gets it almost completely right when it points to the feeble, self-defeating, and confused U.S. policies on world hunger, writes senior program associate Rachel Nugent. Why almost? “The GAO is far too kind,” Nugent writes. “ U.S. and other donor hunger policies have been disastrous, as demonstrated by the current food price crisis . . . . In fact, as the GAO itself points out, there is NO progress in reducing world hunger!”