1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov January 13, 2022International Food Assistance and Agricultural Cargo PreferenceThe United States is the largest provider of international food assistance globally. Approximately 40% of funding for such assistance in FY2020 (the most recent year for which comprehensive
2、 data are available) was used for the provision of food grown in the United States, referred to as “U.S. in-kind assistance,” to countries in need. Such commodities are subject to U.S.-flag shipping requirements in the Cargo Preference Act of 1954 (P.L. 83-664), as amended. Cargo preference requirem
3、ents long have been controversial and the subject of considerable debate, both in Congress and throughout the food assistance stakeholder community. International Food Assistance U.S. international food assistance programs are administered by the U.S. Department of Agricultures (USDAs) Foreign Agric
4、ultural Service (FAS) or the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Programs that provide U.S. in-kind food assistance include Food for Peace (FFP) Title II, Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust, Food for Progress, and McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition. Table
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