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Democrats won House passage of a package of fiscal 2023 appropriations bills that includes new funding for conservation technical assistance and rural broadband Thursday as well as substantial spending increases for EPA and the Interior Department.

The Food and Drug Administration will take a look at its policy for approving animal feed ingredients, which has been criticized for treating them as animal drugs subject to lengthy reviews.

The executive director of the World Food Program says the global food crisis stands to get even worse in 2023 because of possible reductions in farm production due to shortages of affordable fertilizer.

In advance of a congressional hearing today focused on concerns that the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of food safety is dysfunctional, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf announced he is launching a “comprehensive evaluation” of the agency’s food programs.

The U.S. is donating billions of dollars worth of food and other humanitarian assistance to address the global food crisis, but some of the poorest regions in the world still stand on the precipice of famine.

White House officials are sifting through reams of outside comments about the goals of the upcoming White House hunger conference and have yet to announce a specific date or dates, or an agenda.

The combination of factors that came together within the last two years for California food and agriculture “should be considered a Black Swan event” that was unpredictable yet can have severe impacts, according to a leading analyst.

Online shopping and supply chain resiliency are two of the hallmark policies the Department of Agriculture plans to take to address infant formula access through the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.

An effort to drive more sales of American red meat is taking the form of a nationwide cooking competition in a key South American market.