Items Tagged with 'food aid'

Luke Lindberg, USDA’s undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs, is a leading contender to become executive director of the UN World Food Program, the world’s largest aid organization, sources tell Agri-Pulse.

The Senate Ag Committee advanced the nominations for under secretary for farm production and conservation, and for under secretary for natural resources and environment.

Trump boosts timber harvesting * Emergency US food aid cut * Trump threatens China again

The Trump administration’s budget-cutting is ending support for those therapeutic foods that are used to save malnourished kids overseas.

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.