Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the George McGovern Leadership Award given by the World Food Program USA on October 5th, 2010. Secretary Clinton received the award for establishing the U.S. government program Feed the Future (FTF).
According to the press release, Feed the Future will be a
The development of Feed The Future started at the G8 summit at L’Aquila, Italy in 2009, where, as written in the Feed the Future Guide, “The steep rise in global food prices in 2007 and 2008 served as an alarm bell to developed and developing countries alike about the state of the global food system and the growing problem of hunger.”
In response to these alarm bells, global leaders at the 2009 World Summit on Food Security developed the Rome Principles of Sustainable Food Security. These principles lay out how to give aid effectively, especially in relation to food security, and take their impetus from two previous international agreements, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008). These guidelines help provide a framework for how the U.S., through Feed The Future, will give aid to combat food insecurity worldwide.
Upon winning the award, Secretary Clinton summarized the drive behind her work on behalf of hunger, saying,
“we know very well that hunger is a drain on economic development. It is a threat to the stability of governments and it certainly it deprives us of the talents and energy of nearly a billion people worldwide. Fighting hunger is a priority for us and it demands our highest levels of patience and commitment.”
Posted by Rishi Sidhu.
