Untying food aid in Canada: policy matters

It's now been more than 10 years since Canada fully untied its food aid to developing countries.

Food aid, sent from Uganda via South Sudan, is distributed to internally displaced persons living in southeastern Central African Republic in August 2018. Canada fully untied its food aid in 2008. UN photograph by Herve Serefio

Opinion

BY PAUL HAGERMAN

May 22, 2019

When Cyclone Idai devastated crops in Mozambique and neighbouring countries in March, humanitarian agencies rushed in to supply food to the cyclone victims, sourcing that food from farming areas close to the disaster. That practice—local sourcing for food aid—is a relatively new development in t...

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