[chmod775]

>1/2 of all global food aid

You're just cherry picking numbers.

The US has a pretty high per capita amount of arable land among western countries. It's not surprising they'd provide a lot of food aid.

But there's more to foreign aid than providing food. An actually useful metric is looking at per-capita spending on combined foreign aid, which solidly puts the US ($95.52) behind Canada ($122.04), Germany ($214.73), the UK ($284.85), and obviously behind top-spenders such as Norway ($812.58), Sweden ($701.10), Luxembourg ($609.48), etc.

It also puts them behind the EU: The total spending of the EU was $73.80 billion from member states and $13.85 billion from EU institutions, which works out to $196.5 per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_countr...

Food is obviously one of the most important ways of providing foreign aid combating an immediate problem, and it's great the US are using their geography to help out, but it's not exactly fair to pretend others aren't contributing.

[jtbayly]

> and $13.85 billion from EU institutions, which works out to $196.5 per capita.

And what about US institutions, such as the one this article is about? Seems like you are doing your own cherry picking.

[chmod775]

> And what about US institutions

They're already included in the US number. In fact they are the US number.

Due to the greater autonomy of EU member states their individual contributions and those done by EU institutions (meaning those institutions not belonging to a specific member state) were kept separate in the above link.

It's possible the word "institution" doesn't mean what you think it means.

[jtbayly]

I don’t know the ins and outs of this. Just answer this question for me. Do any of the numbers you cite include donations by organizations such as the ones described in the article?

If not, then it’s not a very helpful metric since huge amounts of aid aren’t being measured.