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September 22, 2020
In COVID-19, International, Student Series, Trade

Whistling Past the Graveyard: USDA’s Analysis of the COVID-19 Shock & Global Food Security Trends

Alexander Langer is a law student at NYU School of Law and guest contributor on this blog. After years of steadily rising global food security, more people will go hungry this year because of COVID-19 and the related global economic crisis. However, the global food system that is so vulnerable to these shocks continues to chug along, and U.S. global…

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May 8, 2019
In International, Legislative Process

A Great Tablecloth: Farm Bill Can Help the U.S. Feed More, Faster

For now I ask no more / than the justice of eating.”—from the poem “The Great Tablecloth” by Pablo Neruda The United States plays a key role in the fight against global hunger with its many international food assistance programs under the Farm Bill. The Food for Peace Act, which Congress reauthorizes in the Farm Bill, directs the most prominent…

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