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Food Aid

The distribution of food aid represents an important response to chronic hunger and acute hunger in emergencies. The articles included on this page explore various aspects of food aid programming including recommendations on how to improve this vital resource.

Bread for the World's President David Beckmann submitted testimony to the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee U.S. Senate Hearing on the Reauthorization of the Farm Bill pdf March 21, 2007 on the topic of food aid

Various Challenges Impede the Efficiency an Effectiveness of U.S. Food Aid pdf (Government Accountability Office report)

Feeding a Hungry World: A Vision for Food Aid in the 21st Century

When to Purchase Food Aid Locally?

Can Food Aid Contribute to Improved Nutrition?

US soldier hands out food aid to boy in Pakistan after the earthquake of 2005

A United States soldier hands out emergency food to a boy in Pakistan after the devastating earthquake of 2005.

Photo by Jim Stipe