Sentence examples for food aid programme from inspiring English sources
Control of the $1.4bn£910m0m) food aid programme would be handed over to USAid, the US government aid agency.
The Senate bill includes changes to the food aid programme that would at least partly satisfy reformists.
"I was registered in the food aid programme but we don't know when we'll be receiving the next food ration.
Food distribution is said to be up to 99% of the capacity achieved under the UN's former oil for food aid programme.
Two-thirds of food for the billion-dollar US food aid programme last year was bought from just three US-based multinationals.
He also said a food aid programme to help feed those in quarantined areas in eastern Sierra Leone is completely inadequate.
In 1999, the US Potato Board (USPB) launched a special initiative to get dehydrated American potatoes into the government's overseas food aid programmes.
Our experience in Ethiopia – and more than 40 other countries facing the world's toughest challenges – shows that massive direct food aid programmes often fail.
It suggested a more flexible approach to food aid programmes, with aid agencies allowed to choose between food aid shipped from the US, locally or regionally purchased supplies, vouchers and cash transfers, depending on the situation and specific objectives.
It suggested a more flexible approach to food aid programmes, with agencies allowed to choose between food aid shipped from the US, locally or regionally purchased supplies, vouchers and cash transfers – depending on the situation and specific objectives.
Although the EFSP's 2011 budget of just over $230m pales in comparison with the billions spent on the US's traditional in-kind food aid programmes, Barrett sees it as an important window of opportunity.
