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    ANALYSIS-Obama hunger plan to help, but must seize momentum
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    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has led efforts, and committed $1.4 billion to agricultural development. "Bill Gates' money on the table is a strong argument for optimism and action" Beckmann said. [ID:nN15300517] But he cautioned the convoluted web of federal departments, agencies and programs that have a stake in development and aid may make it hard to get the strategy rolling. Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
    Bill Gates' money on the table is a strong argument for optimism and action
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
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ANALYSIS-Obama hunger plan to help, but must seize momentum
  1. So far, we're still losing the race against hunger, but I guess I'm hopeful ... that this will have an impact
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  2. There's no more excuses: we can't have USAID stuck in a holding pattern
    Betty McCollum – Betty McCollum SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  3. I think all the right words have been spoken. Now it's a question of delivery
    Tom Arnold – Tom Arnold SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  4. I think we really have an opportunity to turn a corner.
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  5. This is going to have to be a slow and steady drumbeat in making sure that members of Congress are fully informed of the impacts of lack of food security
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  6. Obviously, the devil is in the details and we need to do our appropriate oversight to make sure everything is going the way we want it to go
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  7. This is a moment I've never seen
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  8. What they haven't figured out yet is how they're going to manage this in a way that makes our whole development assistance program more effective
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago
  9. You've really got to bring in people who know on the ground how these things work. I hope they do reach out to people with that kind of operational capacity, and not just the theoreticians
    SOURCE: Reuters Alert Net 1 month ago

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