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4. How is the international community
addressing the continuing global food
crisis?
USAID provides emergency
relief supplies, including
food and water, following
the massive typhoon in the
Philippines in Nov. 2013. The
storm was five times bigger
than Hurricane Katrina.
Carol Han/OFDA
The U.S. government has always been
a global leader in responding to food and
humanitarian crises. Other bilateral donors,
multilateral
development
banks,
and
international development organizations are
also stepping up to meet the challenge of ending
global hunger and malnutrition. President
Obama addressed global hunger in his January
2009 inaugural address to the nation, and
the administration’s pivotal efforts at the G-8
Summit later that year in L’Aquila, Italy, led
to broader international commitments to help
reduce hunger.
The United States has shown considerable
leadership through its launch, jointly with
Ireland, of the 1,000 Days Partnership, which
promotes action and investment to improve
nutrition for mothers and children during the
1,000 days from a woman’s pregnancy through
her child’s second birthday, when better
nutrition can improve the rest of a child’s life
and help break the cycle of poverty. In June
2013, the United States pledged $10 billion
through fiscal year 2014 toward eliminating
malnutrition in the 1,000-day window, and
it promised to continue funding nutrition
programs at this level beyond 2014.
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