Articles Tagged with ''food aid''

The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to use USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation spending authority to provide $1 billion in additional food assistance overseas, a move requested by leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee last year.

In this opinion piece, Tony P. Hall, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, and Kip E. Tom, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture highlight the importance of passing the American Farmers Feed the World Act. 

In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz of OFW Law discusses how the war in Ukraine is creating a global hunger catastrophe.

Economists have raised their forecast for farm income this year. As a result, farm earnings are expected to be about the same this year as last, despite sharp increases in production costs.

The Senate Appropriations Committee released draft fiscal 2021 bills that would provide additional increases for rural broadband and other priorities while offering less than House Democrats for EPA and other regulatory agencies.