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...Coral Reef Watch program of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). Though climate change awareness is up, the public has a short attention span when it comes to ecosystems it can't see. So do policymakers. Bruno says more coral data is being gathered today by NGOs than universities or national programs, particularly in developing nations. But even in the U.S., NOAA's satellite-data program, alert system and monitoring are second to the larger network of local groups and governments keeping watch over the U.S. reefs. "Nobody wants to pay for monitoring because it's boring," says...
...food aid was sold rather than distributed in 2005. European countries all but phased out monetized food aid in the 1990s and the world's largest food aid distributor-the U.N.'s World Food Program-does not allow any of its grain to be sold by NGOs...
...Food aid was a sticking point at the 2001 Doha trade talks, amid complaints that the U.S.'s insistence that its food aid be grown at home amounts to a subsidy. Many European NGOs argue that this policy, coupled with the U.S. law that 75% of food aid be carried by U.S. ships, means food often arrives too late, floods local markets and damages indigenous farming...
...They argue that food aid should come, when possible, from the closest producer to the needy area. E.U. policy reflects this sentiment; less than 10% of its food-aid budget is now reserved for European-grown food. (Led by the British-based international charity Oxfam, many NGOs go further, arguing that cash injections into local economies is the best way to fight hunger...
...quarter of the food aid budget be shifted from commodities to cash, but the fate of any change to the U.S. food aid program lies with Congress, which is currently debating a new farm bill. And it is unlikely that other charities in the cash-strapped world of NGOs will follow CARE's lead and boycott a flawed but important form of government funding. Save the Children USA, which along with CARE is a major recipient of monetized food aid, called food aid a "vital resource," but added that it "shares CARE's frustration...