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    Dupont, Cargill 'most supportive' Feed the Future partners

    On Monday, USAID will release a progress report ahead of a three-day global forum on Feed the Future, the administration's initiative to advance food security in 19 countries. Check out which private firms and universities have been most supportive.

    By Michael Igoe // 19 May 2014
    A farmer in Honduras whose tomato crop production has been improved with the help of the Rural Economic Diversification Project under the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Feed the Future initiative. Photo by: USAID

    On Monday, the U.S. Agency for International Development will launch a progress report ahead of a three-day global forum on Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s initiative to advance food security in 19 countries.

    Bangladesh, Senegal and Honduras have shown the strongest results, according to a USAID spokesperson, and the 2013 progress report leans heavily on examples of success from those three countries. The spokesperson added that among participating U.S. companies DuPont and Cargill have been the “most supportive” of the initiative, while Texas A&M, Kansas State, UC Davis, Tufts and Penn State have taken the lead among supporting universities.

    U.S. government investments leveraged more than $160 million in private sector investment targeted at initiative’s goals, a 40 percent increase from 2012, according to the progress report.

    The report also stresses the need to create a stronger link between food security and nutrition, noting that, “undernutrition contributes to 3.1 million child deaths” every year. USAID is expected to release in the coming months a new nutrition policy to outline how programs will address issues like childhood stunting.

    Feed the Future aims to reduce stunting rates in its “zones of influence” by 20 percent.

    Read more on U.S. aid reform online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day.

    See more:

    4 years on, Feed the Future at a turning point
    Feed the Future: Progress made, challenges ahead
    How USAID can engage civil society in Feed the Future

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      Michael Igoe@AlterIgoe

      Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.

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