Just think, you will be getting your taxes jacked up to pay for cashews and groundnuts in Africa.
As colonialists, you deserve this.... JMO

US Feed the Future Presidential Initiave

About

Feed the Future is the United States Government's global hunger and food security initiative. It supports country-driven approaches to address the root causes of hunger and poverty and forge long-term solutions to chronic food insecurity and undernutrition. Drawing upon resources and expertise of agencies across the U.S. Government, this Presidential Initiative is helping countries transform their own agriculture sectors to sustainably grow enough food to feed their people.
Feed the Future is the United States' contribution to a collaborative global effort that supports country-owned processes and plans for improving food security and promoting transparency. Through Feed the Future, the U.S. Government is renewing its commitment to agriculture and economic growth and focusing on harnessing the power of the private sector and research to transform agricultural development.

Feed the Future represents a $3.5 billion pledge to work with partner countries, development partners, and other stakeholders to tackle global food security challenges. Our collective efforts advance global stability and prosperity by improving the most basic of human conditions: the need that families and individuals have for a reliable source of quality food and sufficient resources to purchase it. These efforts, in turn, ultimately advance international security and benefit the American people.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Feed the Future leverages the strengths of agencies across the U.S. Government. Led by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Feed the Future also capitalizes on the resources and expertise of:





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LEADERS
As we search for the Feed the Future Coordinator, the U.S. effort is being led by two deputy coordinators: one responsible for diplomacy and the other for development. The Deputy Coordinators are responsible for implementing Feed the Future, including ensuring that all relevant United States Government agencies and departments are engaged in the process. Tjada McKenna is the Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed the Future. Jonathan Shrier is the Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security and the Acting Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy for Feed the Future.

Tjada D'Oyen McKenna
Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed the Future



Tjada D'Oyen McKenna is the Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed the Future, the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative. In this capacity, McKenna coordinates implementation of Feed the Future across the U.S. government, oversees its execution and reports on results, and leads engagement with the external community to ensure that food security remains high on the development agenda.Feed the Future works with host government and private sector partners to address the needs of smallholder farmers and agribusinesses, emphasizing the empowerment of women; strengthen the enabling environment for strong agricultural markets; promote research and innovation for agricultural development; and increase U.S. investments in nutrition, while maintaining our support for humanitarian food assistance.

Prior to taking on the role of Deputy Coordinator for Development in October 2011, McKenna served as Deputy Assistant to the Administrator in the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Bureau for Food Security. In this role, McKenna oversaw critical elements of USAID's implementation of Feed the Future, managed an interagency effort to provide support and analyses to enable market-led growth, developed transformational private sector alliances, and fostered innovation to accelerate agricultural development and curb undernutrition.Ms. McKenna joined USAID from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she served as a Senior Program Officer in the Agricultural Development Program. In this role, she developed grants and strategies to effectively link smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia to markets. Some of her key accomplishments included working with the World Food Program to develop its Purchase for Progress program, developing the foundation's Agricultural Development Program's strategy for South Asia, creating the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa's (AGRA) Market Access Program, and developing and managing a $47 million coffee grant designed to double the income of a million smallholder farmers over a ten year period.Ms. McKenna has held additional roles in agricultural development at Monsanto Company and as a consultant with McKinsey & Company where she co-authored the McKinsey Quarterly article, "Food for West Africa." In addition, Ms. McKenna has held strategy and business development roles at American Express and GE.Ms. McKenna earned a BA from Harvard College in Government and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She is a past member of the National Board of the Girl Scouts of the USA.


Jonathan Shrier
Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security
Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy for Feed the Future


Mr. Shrier is Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security and Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy for Feed the Future. He leads diplomatic efforts to advance the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative, with a particular focus on major donor and strategic partner countries as well as multilateral institutions such as the G8 and G20. Mr. Shrier came to the State Department's Office of the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative from the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff.

Mr. Shrier has served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he helped to design and establish the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas launched by President Obama. While at the National Security Council and National Economic Council, Mr. Shrier coordinated interagency policy at the intersection of energy, climate, and agriculture, including responses to the spike in commodity prices in 2007-2008. A career Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Shrier handled international trade and investment issues for then Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Sheeran, just prior to her appointment as head of the World Food Program.

During his service at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Mr. Shrier worked with USAID to establish a development assistance program for Tibetan communities in China, with a focus on agriculture-led development. Mr. Shrier has earned degrees from the National Defense University (M.S. in National Security Resource Strategy), University of London (M.B.A. in International Management), London School of Economics (MSc in International Relations), and Dartmouth (A.B. in Government). His languages include Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, French, and Spanish.

Country Partners
Beans


Cashews
Mozambique
Cassava Sector




Chickpeas Sector