Global food security : U.S. agencies progressing on governmentwide strategy, but approach faces several vulnerabilities : report to congressional requesters.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply.

Food.

Hunger--Prevention--Finance.

Hunger.

Administrative agencies--United States--Rules and practice.

Administrative agencies.

Food Supply--economics.

Food Supply--standards.

Developing Countries.

Interinstitutional Relations.

United States.

food.

Medical Subjects:

Food Supply--economics.

Food Supply--standards.

Developing Countries.

Interinstitutional Relations.

United States.

Food.

Genre:

Rules.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 93 pages) : illustrations, color maps

Other Title:

U.S. agencies progressing on governmentwide strategy, but approach faces several vulnerabilities

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2010]

Summary:

Global hunger continues to worsen despite world leaders' 1996 pledge--reaffirmed in 2000 and 2009--to halve hunger by 2015. To reverse this trend, in 2009 major donor countries pledged $22 billion in a 3-year commitment to agriculture and food security in developing countries, of which $3.5 billion is the U.S. share. Through analysis of agency documents, interviews with agency officials and their development partners, and fieldwork in five recipient countries, GAO examined (1) the types and funding of food security programs and activities of relevant U.S. government agencies; and (2) progress in developing an integrated U.S. governmentwide strategy to address global food insecurity as well as potential vulnerabilities of that strategy.

Notes:

Title from title caption (GAO, viewed May 5, 2010).

"March 2010."

Includes bibliographical references.

"GAO-10-352."

OCLC:

611660286