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A Call for a Strategic U.S. Approach to the Global Food Crisis | | type | | Link | | language | | English | | date | | 22 Sep 08 | | description | | A Report of the CSIS (CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES) Task Force on the Global Food Crisis Core Findings and Recommendations (dated July 2008), calling for modernizing and doubling emergency assistance, making rural development and agricultural productivity foreign policy priorities, revising the U.S. approach to biofuels, urgently acting to conclude the Doha Development Round, and creating a strategic U.S. approach to global food security. Co-chairs Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-IN) and Sen. Robert P. Casey (D-PA) charged the task force with identifying a food security plan that the Bush administration, the presidential campaigns, Congress, and the next administration could embrace. | | contributed by | | Mark J McGuire | | url | http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080728_food_security.pdf ()  |
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