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	Bob Bell, director of food resources for CARE  Photo © Mary Hanlon

CARE director visits Prof. Austen-Smith's class

03/06/2007 — Bob Bell, director of food resources for CARE, was a guest speaker in Professor David Austen-Smith's SEEK-460 Values-Based Leadership class on Tuesday, March 6th. Mr. Bell presented to the class on a US Food Aid policy case, “Farmers, Charities Join Forces To Block Famine-Relief Revamp: Bush Administration Wants To Purchase African Food; Lobby Says Buy American. Proposal Is Stuck in Congress” written by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman for the Wall Street Journal’s October 26, 2005 edition.

From the article:

“American humanitarian groups, armed with food donated by the U.S. government, have fed millions of starving people around the world over the past half-century. So Bush administration officials figured the charities would support changes to America's food-aid program aimed at saving even more lives from famine.”

“Starting next year, the White House wants to spend one-quarter of its food-aid budget to buy overseas goods to feed starving foreigners. Currently, it's required to buy that produce from American farmers. The administration says the change will cut the cost of buying and shipping commodities and save 50,000 more lives a year.”

Following Mr. Bell’s lecture, students in the SEEK 460 class gave group presentations on projects they worked on related to the Wall Street Journal Food Aid article.

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