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USDA and USAID will deploy $1 billion in Commodity Credit Corporation funding to purchase U.S.-grown commodities to provide emergency food assistance to people in need throughout the world.

USDA and USAID intend to draw down entire Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust to respond to global food insecurity

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today announced the addition of Sudan and South Sudan as eligible countries under the Africa Middle East Region for the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102). For additional...

Statement by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice on Humanitarian Aid to South Sudan

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2013 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announces availability of the following credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation's Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM...

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2013 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today amends availability of the following credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation's Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102)...

By Jana Mikulasova, FAS Agricultural Specialist, .S. Embassy Prague The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) office in Prague, Czech Republic , joined the People’s Garden initiative in the summer of 2009, when employees started planning their project...