date:Apr 12, 2013
President Barack Obamas fiscal 2014 budget released April 10 includes a dramatic overhaul of U.S. international food assistance programs.
The president proposed an end to Food for Peace (P.L. 480 Title II), the principal vehicle through which the U.S. government and people have provided food assistance to the poor and hungry abroad for nearly 60 years. Funds that ordinarily would be appropriated in the agriculture budget for P.L. 480 Title II foreign food assistance instead would be shifted int