Rajiv Shah’s African Trip
In his first trip to Africa as USAID Administrator, Rajiv Shah is visiting Kenya and Sudan this week, where he has been meeting with the World Food Program, the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur, the U.N. Population Fund and other UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs. He also discussed a new sustainable agriculture project called the Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets, or FARM project. Keeping with its focus on food security, USAID has announced plans to launch a website for the government’s new global hunger and food security initiative, “Feed the Future.” The launch this week will be accompanied by keynote remarks Dr. Shah at a global agriculture and food security symposium at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
