NGO Sign On Letter to House in Support of Funding for Food for Peace

Twenty-one U.S. NGOs and InterAction members signed joint letters regarding U.S. food assistance addressed to the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee and the Senate Appropriations Committee.  These letters urge Congress to support critical Food for Peace Title II programs by appropriating at least $1.5 billion in the FY 2014 Agriculture Appropriations bill.  The letters also urge Congress to work with the Administration to find efficiencies and reforms that would enable those dollars to reach more of the world’s hungry people, as well as grant increased flexibility to use cash resources alongside commodities within Food for Peace Title II programs in FY2014.