AS IT IS 2013-06-28 What's the Best Way to Give Food Aid? From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Welcome to the show. Im Caty Weaver. The United States is the leading supplier of food aidaround the world, at a cost of about 1.5 billion dollarsy

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Helping in a crisis can pose dilemma for local farmers and merchants Steve Baragona | Artibonite Valley, Haiti 29 April 2010 Rice farmers can be adversely affected by food aid. About three hours north of Port-au-Prince, the Artibonite Valley is the c

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Clinton: Famine Aid Must Prevent Future Crises The United States has pledged an additional $17 million to nations in the Horn of Africa coping with severe drought. That includes $12 million for Somalia, where tens of thousands of people have died of

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Congress Debates Limiting US Farmers' Role in Food Aid When starvation looms, speed is critical. But while the U.S. provides more emergency food aid than any other country, speed is not what it does best. Andrew Natsios witnessed this shortcoming fir

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U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged a wide-ranging response for farmers and ranchers to the one of the worst droughts in more than 50 years. Obama said in his weekly address Saturday the current corn crop is in poor or very poor condition and cat

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WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama is authorizing an additional $30 million in federal government help for drought-stricken U.S. farmers and ranchers. Americas continued dry weather will likely affect food and fuel prices worldwide. The president met

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