Sentence examples for the food aid program from inspiring English sources

Efforts to reform the food aid program are not new.

The bills reauthorized the food aid program and left it largely intact, in the agriculture budget.

But now, amid tight federal budgets, reform proponents say Congress might be more receptive to changing the food aid program.

Mr. Davidson said the grant applications emphasize that the food aid program is about much more than feeding hungry animals.

She said the bill passed the committee with overwhelming support, 36 to 10, without any amendments to move the food aid program out of the farm bill.

Officials have estimated that the food aid program for North Korea is underfinanced by 80 percent and that nearly half the country's children are malnourished.

The proposed change to the international food aid program is expected to save millions in shipping costs and get food more quickly to areas that need it.

Anti-poverty groups want to make changes in the international food aid program that would allow the Agency for International Development to increase the amount of food it is allowed to purchase closer to where it is needed, rather than buying from American farmers and shipping it overseas.

WASHINGTON — A proposal by the Obama administration to overhaul the international food aid program has set off a jurisdictional fight among members of several House and Senate committees, threatening to derail the most significant change to the program since it was created nearly 60 years ago.

The U.S. food aid program requires that food be shipped from America, and 75 percent of it must sail on American ships.

European officials dismissed the charges, saying that they gave a much larger proportion of their gross domestic product to aid developing countries and that they had not interfered with the American food aid program to Africa.