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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, March 01, 2025
Manufacturers of specialized food nutrition products are continuing operations despite payment delays and uncertainty around USAID's future, but warn of far-reaching economic repercussions if food aid is permanently axed.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law dollars and those paused by an Office of Management and Budget directive.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development has has delayed food aid shipments and left the assistance without needed oversight to ensure it’s not wasted or diverted, the USAID inspector general says.
The State Department is allowing the shipping and distribution of food aid to resume, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced. Some $560 million worth of commodities had been stalled ports around the world following the gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
A 90-day suspension and stop-work order on most U.S. foreign aid has snagged some anti-hunger and agricultural development efforts while stalling shipping of some agricultural commodities, although emergency food assistance can still be distributed.
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, andKip E. Tom, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculturehighlight the importance of passing the American Farmers Feed the World Act.
USDA’s plan to spend $1.4 billion to pay for a new export promotion program will provide the increase in market development funding that commodity groups have been trying to get through the farm bill, says Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
Key senators are seeking to waive rules that sharply increase the cost of shipping U.S. food assistance overseas at the same time anti-hunger groups are set to call for far more aid than the Biden administration has requested so far to address the developing global food crisis.
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