IRIN: Canada to provide cash, not commodities in switch of food aid policy
JOHANNESBURG, 5 May 2008 (IRIN) – Canada is the latest major donor country to break the link between overseas food aid and supporting its own farmers.
The country says it will no longer insist on sending domestically grown food to the rising number of poor countries affected by escalating food and fuel prices, but will instead provide aid agencies with cash, giving them the flexibility to source cheaper food in the region or beneficiary country.
Canada's move to "untie" its food aid by removing restrictions on where the food can be purchased leaves the United States of America, the world largest donor of food, as the only developed country with tied food aid. …
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