The Impacts of Local and Regional Procurement of US Food Aid: Learning Alliance Synthesis Report

The Impacts of Local and Regional Procurement of US Food Aid: Learning Alliance Synthesis Report – Erin C. Lentz1, Christopher B. Barrett and Miguel I. Gómez, Cornell University

  • “Local and regional procurement (LRP), the purchase of food within the country where it is to be distributed or in a nearby country, has been practiced for decades. The World Food Programme (WFP) began procuring food locally in Asia in the 1970s and in Africa in the 1980s (WFP 1999; 2006). But until the past decade or so, most agencies procured small volumes or made procurements to cover transoceanic food aid pipeline shortfalls or delays. More recently, however, LRP has become a mainstream approach. This is especially true for international food assistance supported by the European Union and its member states—collectively, the world’s second largest food aid donor…Likewise Canada—traditionally one of the top four food aid donors globally—now provides virtually all of its food assistance in the form of cash for local procurement, vouchers, or cash distributions following a 2005 increase from 10 to 50 percent in the maximum allowable LRP share of its food aid programs and then the removal of that ceiling entirely in 2008 (Upton and Lentz 2011).”
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