Trade, Not Aid, Is Best Course for G-8 Ag Policy

James M. Roberts / July 10, 2009

Tourists might buy souvenirs, but President Obama is seeking “deliverables” he can bring home to convince Americans that the millions of their tax dollars spent to send the huge U.S. delegation to the G-8 Meeting in Italy this week was money well spent. So, he has been leaning on other G-8 leaders to support his plan to provide new development assistance funds for programs in poor countries in Africa and elsewhere to help farmers learn how to grow more food. No doubt the President would also like to travel from Italy to Ghana today bearing a gift of fresh foreign aid cash. (more…)