food aid

About one-third of the world’s fertilizer and a fifth of its oil moves out of the Gulf through the Strait. That’s raised fuel, fertilizer, and food prices.

When politics disrupt food supply, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Jake Liening sheds light on what's happening in crisis zones like Yemen.

Last week, USDA, the State Department and Office of Management and Budget signed an interagency agreement saying the Department of Ag should run Food For Peace.

When the Trump Administration took office, and established DOGE, one of the first programs that was reviewed, and eventually dismantled, was USAID.  The Administration said the $40 billion organization, which employed thousands of people, was wasting taxpayer funds and not doing the work it was established to do.  Many in...

The Ranking Members of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees are pressing the Trump administration for answers on international food aid disruptions.   Senator Amy Klobuchar and Representative Angie Craig, both Minnesota Democrats, asked for an explanation following a stop-work order that halted the delivery and distribution of hundreds of millions of metric tons of American-grown food aid,

U.S. global food aid is stalled as the Trump Administration and government efficiency chief Elon Musk look to dismantle or combine parts of the U.S. Agency for International Development into the State Department.  And House Ag Democrats contend that roughly $340 million dollars in U.S. food a...