Officials from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently confirmed what many development experts already know: local and regional procurement of food aid provides opportunities to enhance U.S. foreign assistance efforts. Testifying before Congress recently, they warned, however, that challenges remain on how to efficiently and reliably distribute food aid to the world's poor and hungry people.
The GAO found that local food procurements in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia were 34 percent and 29 percent less expensive than the...
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