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Food For Peace

"Food can be a powerful instrument for all the free world in building a durable peace." President Dwight D. Eisenhower

About Food For Peace

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The next International Food Aid Conference will be held by USDA and USAID April 06-08, 2009 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Nearly 800 million people in the world are food insecure. Many live in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Chronic poverty, the persistent lack of economic opportunity either to produce adequate amounts of food or to exchange labor for income needed to purchase food in adequate amounts, is the chief cause of food insecurity.

USAID, through funding provided by Public Law 480, Title II, makes commodity donations to Cooperating Sponsors (Private Voluntary Organizations, Cooperatives, and International Organization Agencies) to address the needs of food security in both 5-year development projects and emergency food assistance programs.

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