scholarly journals Working together for global health goals: The United States Agency for International Development and Faith-based organizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clydette Linda Powell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
Agency For International Development ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Faith Based Organizations

“From factory to field”: USAID and the logistics of foreign aid in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Attewell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
International Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Agency For International Development

Emerging critical scholarship on logistics has shown how the field is implicated in a broader necropolitics of violence, disposability, and exploitation. While much has been made of logistics’ historical linkages to military and market forces, this paper, in contrast, explores how logisticians have played an increasingly central role in development and humanitarian missions to theatres of conflict and emergency. It focuses on the effort of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to supply mujahideen forces in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with the non-lethal materiel necessary for their insurgency. It argues that USAID understood its relief and rehabilitation mission as a problem of logistics. By sketching the shifting contours of USAID’s cross-border programming, this article offers a more nuanced diagnosis of how logistics has become essential to the management of life and death across multiple temporalities, spaces, and scales.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF ENVIRONMENT: BUILDING HOUSES ALONG THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY IN JORDAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget L. Guarasci
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
International Development ◽  
Rift Valley ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
The United States ◽  
Home Building ◽  
Agency For International Development ◽  
Tourist Economy ◽  
Great Rift Valley

AbstractThis article analyzes the restoration of Jordan's UN Dana Biosphere Reserve cottages for ecotourism and home building in the neighboring village of Qadisiyya as competing land projects. Whereas a multimillion-dollar endowment from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) restores Dana's houses as a “heritage” village for a tourist economy, families in Qadisiyya build houses with income from provisional labor to shore up a familial future. Each act of home building articulates a political claim to land. This article argues for attention to the architecture of the environment in the comparison of two, once-related villages. A comparative analysis of Dana and Qadisiyya reveals the competing socio-political objectives of home building for the future of Jordan and the implications of environment in that struggle.

scholarly journals A modification of the growth-inhibition test and its use for detectingMycoplasma mycoidesvar.mycoides

1968 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Davies ◽  
W. C. S. Read
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Growth Inhibition ◽  
International Development ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Inhibition Test ◽  
Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Growth Inhibition Test ◽  
Agency For International Development

SummaryA modification of the growth-inhibition test for identifyingMycoplasmaspecies is described. The modification simplifies the screening of a large number of strains for one species. Experiments showed that it was effective and specific when used to identifyM. mycoidesvar.mycoides. Its use in studying the epidemiology of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia is discussed.This work was financed in part by the United States of America Agency for International Development under the terms of the CCTA/AID Joint Project 16 for research on contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.We wish to thank Dr R. H. Leach for the various bovine mycoplasma cultures.

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