{"id":290,"date":"2017-08-04T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/?p=290"},"modified":"2017-08-22T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:24:46","slug":"uncertainty-grows-in-zimbabwe-as-the-trump-administration-considers-cutting-foreign-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/lorna-born\/2017\/08\/04\/uncertainty-grows-in-zimbabwe-as-the-trump-administration-considers-cutting-foreign-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"“Uncertainty Grows in Zimbabwe as the Trump Administration Considers Cutting Foreign Aid”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Zimbabwe receives $150 million in U.S. aid funding annually to combat food insecurity and support climate resilience programs for 2.1 million people”, writes Andrew Mambondiyani<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Trump Brings Great Uncertainty to Africa<\/h3>\n

Many drought-stricken rural communities were hoping that their turn for much needed help would arrive soon, with new USAID-funded programs initiated in their regions. But those hopes were largely dashed with the release of Trump’s appropriately nicknamed “skinny budget” this spring.<\/p>\n

According to Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a>, the Trump administration’s March 16th budget “proposal vowed to slash aid to developing countries by over one-third.”<\/p>\n

The worried question now on the minds of Zimbabwe’s rural poor: Will the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress\u2014which has final say over the 2018 budget\u2014slash some or all funding for aid projects in Zimbabwe?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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