Food Supplies for Feeding Programs in the Philippines

Raymond A. Hoehle, Flint, Amos,, Hugh J. Roberts and Roy Brown

No 334718, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Excerpts from the report: The team recommends that: 1. AID provide technical assistance to the Philippines for expanding GOP feeding programs and for developing reliable food supplies for the programs. 2. AID suggest that the GOP act quickly to establish a food procurement agency for the feeding programs, and offer the GOP the services of food procurement specialists to advise on planning and procedures for food procurement. 3. AID recommend that the GOP create a task group to determine specific funding requirements and funding sources for feeding programs. 4. AID offer the GOP assistance in developing a plan for acquiring food supplies produced within the Philippines based on existing food crops and existing technology. 5. AID suggest to the GOP that it establish a FOOD RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD to identify applied research needed to improve food commodities used in Filipino feeding programs.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Public Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 65
Date: 1975-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.334718

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