Publication

This publication criticizes the fact that the US food aid program by law has to provide food grown in the US, processed, shipped by US firms and distributed through US-based agencies and organizations. The author argues that everyone but the US food and shipping industry loses out on this regulation, as US-based food aid usually costs 2-3 times as much as if it is sourced in the recipients country. Furthermore, the publication claims that farmers and traders in the recipient countries have to fight with collapsing prices when the US food supplies arrive with the new harvest.