Haggblade, Steven; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
By law, US food aid relies on commodity procurement in the US. A powerful political coalition of US farm groups …, shippers and relief agencies vigorously supports these in-kind food aid donation. As an alternative, local procurement of food …. For this reason, many food aid donors, other than the US, have switched to local and regional procurement of food aid …