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USDA, USAID Deploy $1 Billion for Emergency Food Assistance

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.
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USDA Invests Nearly a Half Billion Dollars in the Food for Progress and McGovern Dole Programs to Strengthen Global Food Security Using US Commodities

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack today announced the United States is investing $455 million to strengthen global food security and international capacity-building efforts.
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USDA Identifies 2023 McGovern-Dole Priority Countries

For FY 2023, USDA anticipates awarding up to $224 million in new McGovern-Dole cooperative agreements. USDA has identified the following as priority countries for FY 2023: Cameroon, Haiti, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and Togo.
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Biden Administration Announces Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Global Food Aid to Respond to Putin’s Unprovoked Invasion of Ukraine

USDA and USAID intend to draw down entire Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust to respond to global food insecurity
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FY2017 Sudan and South Sudan Added as Eligible Countries (GSM-102)

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...
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Humanitarian Aid to South Sudan

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