DROUGHT ASSISTANCE POLICY*

USAID Policy Paper: Population Assistance

Food and Nutrition Assistance Policy

guided by the principle that Americans should not be hungry or malnourished because they cannot afford a nutritious diet. Food assistance programs help to provide food and meet nutritional requirements for individuals and households that are vulnerable due to low income or other circumstances. Originally initiated in the early 1930s, with the primary objective to dispose of surplus agricultural...

The hospitalization assistance policy system in Japan.

In Japan, the hospitalization assistance policy (HAP) system helps pregnant women who, for financial reasons, cannot give birth at medical institutions. The HAP system allows these women to deliver at specified midwifery institutions. We compared women with singleton pregnancies who gave birth with the HAP system (n=150) or without (control; n=2,869) . Although the percentage of women younger t...

The policy drought on climate change.

T he holiday season here in the United States was ushered in by a long-awaited report, heralded as laying out the administration's research agenda for climate change. It should interest those in the United States who may have been expecting something meaningful from their government, along with those in Europe and elsewhere who have come to expect disappointment. The draft strategic plan for th...

Managing drought risk in a changing climate:The role of national drought policy

There is increasing concern worldwide about the ineffectiveness of current drought management practices that are largely based on crisis management. These practices are reactive and, therefore, only treat the symptoms (impacts) of drought rather than the underlying causes for the vulnerabilities associated with impacts. Through the adoption of national drought policies that are focused on risk ...