2023 Food Bill
Written by Bread for the World
I urge you to have your Congressman/woman sign Representatives Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) asking to reauthorize and strengthen the Food for Peace program in the 2023 Farm Bill.
Food for Peace is one of the U.S. government’s most important global food assistance programs. In the more than 60 years since it began, the program has reached approximately four billion people in 150 countries with both emergency support and resilience-building programs.
Food for Peace emergency programs save lives around the world, mainly by providing U.S. commodities to alleviate severe hunger and malnutrition in times of crisis. At the same time, Food for Peace also funds critical resilience-building food assistance programs that utilize market-based assistance to address the underlying drivers of hunger in ways that in-kind food aid cannot. These resilience-building programs strengthen a community’s ability to feed themselves and ultimately decrease dependency on U.S. foreign aid over the long-term.
By helping create sustainable local food systems that reduce the number of communties experiecing hunger, resilience-building international food assistance programs are effceint and cost effective mechanism for domestic and forein aide.
Of the 330 million people in the United States, an estimated 38.3 million were food insecure in 2020, according to the USDA. No matter your political affiliation, it is not right to let our fellow Americans starve. We need Congress to by the 2023 Farm Bill.