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Mar 10, 2016
The American Soybean Association (ASA) along with 40 other commodity and maritime groups sent a letter to the Committees of jurisdiction in early March, urging them to support full funding of the Food for Peace Program. The letter also urged support for in-kind food aid and warned against efforts to convert in-kind assistance to cash.
This letter comes after President Barack Obama’s budget sought to reduce the Food for Peace Program, which provides the largest amount of federal funds for in-kind food aid. The President’s budget also sought to move away from in-kind food aid towards more cash based and regionally purchased food. The Letter signed by ASA was led by the maritime industry with strong support from the agriculture community. ASA signed onto a nearly identical letter in 2013.
Click here to read the letter.
