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Honduras’ top agricultural official was in Washington in early October to provide a first-hand account of how the Foreign Agricultural Service’s Food for Progress Program is helping improve rural livelihoods, boost agricultural productivity, enhance...

FAS is soliciting proposals for projects to be funded in fiscal year 2017 through the Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Program (LRP). Through the LRP, FAS partners with private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and the World Food Program...

USDA’s McGovern–Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program helps reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education in low-income, food-deficit countries around the world. Today, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)...

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) will hold a public meeting to discuss the fiscal year 2017 grants application process, commodity monetization issues, and other program administration issues relevant to stakeholders of the Food for Progress...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2017 McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (McGovern-Dole), which helps support education, child development and food security in low-income, food-deficit...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2017 Food for Progress Program. Food for Progress helps developing countries and emerging democracies modernize and strengthen their agricultural sectors. U.S. agricultural...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will host the International Food Assistance and Food Security Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, October 10-11. The conference, to be held in conjunction with World...

Contact: FAS Public Affairs (202) 720-7115 WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2016–The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will host the International Food Assistance and Food Security Conference in Des...

Peter Mumo of Kenya meets with Amy Harding, deputy director of the FAS Food Assistance Division, in Washington. (Photo Credit: Steve Taravella, United Nations World Food Program) As a young boy in eastern Kenya, Peter Mumo faced a life of poverty...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will host the International Food Assistance and Food Security Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, October 10-11. The conference, to be held in conjunction with World...

Contact: USDA Office of Communications, (202) 720-4623 WASHINGTON, July 20, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the following statement on S.1252, the Global Food Security Act of 2016, signed by President Obama today: "Agriculture's...