Morning Briefing

"A new report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs applauds U.S. government agencies for food security leadership but calls on them to up the game in the face of rising global challenges and shrinking aid budgets," Connie Veillette, director of the Center for Global Development's rethinking U.S. foreign assistance initiative, writes in the center's "Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Blog," adding, "While it is a positive assessment, the report highlights some areas of concern that could affect U.S. leadership in future years" (4/27). John Glenn, policy director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, notes in the organization's blog that Chicago Council "co-chairs Catherine Bertini and Dan Glickman called for the progress made to be institutionalized with Congressional authorization. Significant increases in food production, they suggested, will only be visible after a decade, which would require sustaining the commitments of the past three years for another seven years" (4/27).