Haiti: Legislative Responses to the Food Crisis and Related Development Challenges

Seelke, Clare Ribando ; Hornbeck, J. F.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Food;    Food supply;    Food relief;    Foreign aid;    International relief;   

RP-ID  :  RS22879
RP-ID  :  RS22879_2008Oct02

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Haiti faces several interrelated challenges, the most immediate being a lingering food crisis that in April 2008 led to deadly protests and the ouster of Haiti's prime minister. Haiti also suffers from a legacy of poverty, unemployment, and under-development that is compounding security problems for its new and fragile democracy. This report describes in detail the amount and types of emergency food aid and other relief aid that the United States has sent and will continue to send to Haiti. This report also outlines relevant pieces of legislation.