Items Tagged with 'World Food Program'

We’re still months away from seeing a new farm bill on the House and Senate farm bill, but ag groups could get a look as soon as next month at the challenges they may face in protecting crop insurance and other programs.

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.

The House will debate a package of six spending bills that include funding for departments and agencies critical to agriculture, and Republicans are pushing for votes on amendments aimed at highlighting key parts of President Joe Biden’s regulatory agenda.

The World Trade Organization squeaked out a win in the final hours of its summit this week in Geneva, agreeing to prohibit all of its 164 nations from refusing to provide food commodities to the World Food Program for its humanitarian efforts.

An agreement to ban food export restrictions could be in reach for the World Trade Organization after years of failing to produce a major achievement.

Agriculture leaders say new figures from the International Monetary Fund should underscore the need for heightened awareness of an issue familiar to many who have long been active in the global hunger space.

In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz of OFW Law discusses themes of the UN Food Systems Summit and the dialogue that must continue.

In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz discusses how world hunger is predicted to take more lives than the COVID-19 pandemic and how a spotlight will be on the upcoming 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.