{"id":3025,"date":"2011-08-08T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2011-08-07T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T22:15:22","slug":"good-podcast-on-food-aid-and-the-wfps-procurement-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3025","title":{"rendered":"Good Podcast on Food Aid and the WFP&#8217;s Procurement Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to blog this when it first came out at the beginning of July, but I did not get a chance to listen to this Center for Global Development (CGD)\u00a0<a title=\"Hedging Against Hunger\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cgdev.org\/global_prosperity_wonkcast\/2011\/07\/05\/hedging-against-hunger-connie-veillette-ben-leo\/\" target=\"_blank\">podcast<\/a> until this past weekend, when recurrent eye problems forced me to spend time (looking) away from my computer. The current famine in the Horn of Africa makes this still relevant.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In it, Lawrence MacDonald talks to Connie Veillette and Ben Leo (all three are from the CGD) about the structure of US food aid and the way the World Food Program procures the food it then dispatches to disaster areas &#8212; and how the WFP&#8217;s procurement mechanism could be improved via hedging.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me &#8212; my dissertation adviser wrote an entire <a title=\"Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Food-Aid-After-Fifty-Years\/dp\/0415701252\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1312754881&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">book on food aid<\/a>\u00a0while I was in grad school. When it came out, I set it aside in the name of being too busy with my dissertation.\u00a0I think it&#8217;s time I read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to blog this when it first came out at the beginning of July, but I did not get a chance to listen to<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3025\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Podcast on Food Aid and the WFP&#8217;s Procurement Practices<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,55,63,26,34,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-economics","category-famine","category-food","category-macro","category-policy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-MN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}