In 2010, USAID forecasting tools warned that Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia would be hard hit on many fronts by serious drought conditions. Now, in the midst of the region’s worst crisis in decades, the U.S. Government—among other interventions—is ramping up its multi-pronged emergency food response and planting the seeds for long-term, country-led agricultural resiliency.
Jessica Hartl
During the second Bush Administration it became fashionable in the State Department to talk about “transformational diplomacy.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defined the term in January 2006 this way: “To work with our many partners around the world to build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that will respond to the needs of their people—and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.”
Jack Sullivan
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50th ANNIVERSARY
- Passing the Torch: Career Ed Officer Reminisces
- From Famine to Feast in Brazil
- Feeding the Future by Documenting the Past
- Transmigrational Diplomacy
- The Domino Effect of Reform
- Family Planning Campaign Hits all the Right Notes 50th extra
- Testing Democratic Waters in Honduras
- When You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees…
- "Democratic Heart in a Bolshevik Body"; Albania after the Wall
- From Tragedy to Action: USAID’s Environmental Trajectory
- For Kyrgyz Farmers, a Model Partnership
- Courage to Change the Future 50th extra
- USAID and Peace Corps Expand Reach in Global Education 50th extra
- Spreading the Word: Bangladesh’s Marketing Blitz 50th extra
- Mission to South Africa 50th extra
- Hotel School Project: Developing Turkey’s Tourist Industry 50th extra
- Battling an Epidemic 50th extra
FOOD SECURITY
- Feed the Future: A Model for Doing Development Differently
- Rwandan Fruit Salad
- From Soup to Nuts: Reviving Mozambique’s Cashew Industry
- Empowering Women to Feed and Lead
- Pepsi and Chickpeas: An Interview with Derek Yach
- Feeding the Present and the Future in the Horn of Africa
- New Science for Better Food Aid food security extra
- Adviser, Ambassador, Humanitarian: An Interview with William Garvelink food security extra
- Guatemala’s Chronic Malnutrition Crosses Borders food security extra
- Tanzania’s Hunger Hero food security extra
- Hungry for Food-Security Knowledge? food security extra
Decades ago, Brazil was facing rapid population growth and a food crisis. Today, it is the third largest agricultural producer in the world.
Isadora Ferriera
Nutrition education program at district hospital is helping close the knowledge gap and is fighting malnutrition one classroom at a time.
Christine Spetz
