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May 17, 2013The Post’s May 13 editorial “Hurdles in reforming U.S. food aid” glossed over critical facts about the U.S. merchant marine and food aid programs. The Post failed to discuss the important nexus linking food aid programs, the merchant marine and...
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May 16, 2013Recently, a member of the American Farm Bureau Federation staff was interviewed on the subject of proposed changes to U.S. international food aid. The question was whether the United States should shift food aid donations to cash instead of...
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May 16, 2013The Administration’s FY14 budget proposes to end the longstanding Food for Peace (PL 480) US commodity donation program, and instead transfer all PL 480 funding into USAID’s International Disaster Account (IDA) for the purchase of foreign-source commodities and direct...
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May 9, 2013On behalf of the 47,000 members and 250 councils ofthe Navy League of the United States, we urge you to reject the Administration’s FY 2014 budget request proposing to eliminate the PL 480 Food for Peace Program, which would...
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April 25, 2013I am writing you today to voice my strong support for the Food for Peace Title II humanitarian assistance program created by Public Law 480 and disappointment over the proposed changes to the program in the Administration’s FY 2014...
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April 25, 2013WASHINGTON, DC — USA Maritime Chairman James L. Henry today issued the following statement to correct reports about the efficacy of the U.S. Merchant Marine in delivering U.S. food aid and to comment on the detrimental effects of proposed...
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April 17, 2013The Alliance for Global Food Security urges food aid reforms that maximize benefits and flexibility, without jeopardizing the availability and reliability of U.S. food aid. After reviewing President Obama’s “Food Aid Reforms,” we are concerned that it does not...
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April 16, 2013USA Maritime, a coalition of American maritime labor unions and U.S.-flag shipping companies, strongly opposes the Administration’s proposal to replace the time-tested Food for Peace (PL 480) Program with a cash-based system (the “Emergency Food Security Program” or EFSP)...
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April 10, 2013“USA Maritime is severely disappointed that the Obama Administration has moved forward with this misguided proposal to effectively eliminate the long-standing and successful Food for Peace program,” said James L. Henry, chairman of USA Maritime. “Despite recent letters from...
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April 8, 2013I respectfully write today to add my support for the continuation of the Food for Peace program and ask that you maintain level funding for this program in your fiscal year 2014 budget request to Congress. The United States...
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