Madrid and Brasilia to offer G20 alternative aid model
Spanish and Brazilian initiative in Caribbean took supplies to hurricane-stricken nations without involving World Food Program
A pilot project run jointly by Spain and Brazil in 2009 that delivered 40,000 tons of food aid to Haiti, Honduras and Cuba, which had been struck by hurricanes, is set to be touted as a future model for international aid cooperation at the next G20 meeting.
An informal 2009 telephone conversation between former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero led to a bilateral initiative that sidestepped the World Food Program (WFP) and delivered the food aid, donated by Brazil, on ships paid for by Spain, at a cost of 16 million euros.
Normally, the WFP buys the food from a specialized intermediary. The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development estimates that this process, called triangulation, would deliver three times as much aid for the same price as the current model.
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