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This USAID Program Made Food Aid More Efficient for Decades. DOGE Gutted It Anyways

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Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net) is a long-running, broadly successful data analysis initiative that provides guidance to ensure that food aid is delivered in the least-wasteful way possible.

Fews Net has been credited with saving up to a million lives in 2016 , when it predicted and responded to a famine in the Horn of Africa .

The international development firm Chemonics says it has furloughed 88 percent of its US -based workforce.

Fews Net partners with other US government organizations like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , and the United States Geological Survey to conduct its analyses.

Crippling the program "really does a serious disservice to the ability of the US government to spend US taxpayer dollars effectively," says Laura Glaeser .

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