Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report's original feature story, "'I had no choice but to go abroad': US aid cuts hit Nepal’s farmers." Reporter Yam Kumari Kandel looked into the effects of the termination of USAID's agricultural initiative Feed the Future on the lives of rural farming communities.

Launched in 2010, Feed the Future most recently was coordinated from USAID’s Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security, or REFS, which championed long-term agricultural development. With this initiative stalled, the U.S. foreign assistance portfolio related to food security focuses predominantly on lifesaving food aid, and the promotion and distribution of U.S.-grown commodities.

Devex Researcher Note: The latest phase of Feed the Future was comprised of direct programmatic interventions in 20 countries worldwide, targeting multiple levels of food production systems including investing in research and development, building supply chains, training agricultural workers, and providing production subsidies.

Source: Devex