Experts warn that reducing or eliminating USAID, which focuses on climate resilience in vulnerable areas like Africa and Central America, could exacerbate instability due to climate change. Significant USAID projects help nations improve agricultural resilience and infrastructure against extreme weather, while also addressing carbon emissions and renewable energy reliance. A senior fellow emphasized the long-term costs of neglecting these regions, suggesting that failure to provide aid might ultimately lead to greater U.S. involvement in conflicts. Additionally, a reduction in USAID could leave an opportunity for countries like China to expand their influence by stepping in to provide aid.
It would add substantially to the instability in these volatile regions, because vulnerable populations will be doing without.
Instability morphs... where insufficient governance, you don't have access to the basics, and there's a vacuum created.
We need to pay a little bit now to help make regions more resilient to food and drought shocks.
A pullback in foreign aid could also benefit China, which may step into the void.
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