Antihunger Groups Join Forces to Press for U.S. Aid
February 26, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
A coalition of more than 30 food-aid groups is calling on the Obama administration and Congress to make worldwide hunger a bigger budget priority, reports Reuters.
The United States should bump spending on food and agricultural aid by 60 percent — to $6.36-billion by 2010 — and commit to more than doubling that by 2014, according the coalition, which includes CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children, and Mercy Corps.
The members, which have often differed on how best to feed the world’s hungry, have also forged consensus that traditional emergency shipments of U.S. agricultural products should be balanced with long-term cash and development efforts.
