Friday, April 05, 2013

Aid groups: US should send cash, not food, abroad - WTVM.com-Columbus, GA News Weather & Sports

Aid groups: US should send cash, not food, abroad - WTVM.com-Columbus, GA News Weather & Sports: The White House will not say whether Obama's budget proposal, scheduled to come out next week, will seek to change the way foreign food aid is distributed. But food aid groups, farm groups and their allies in Congress are preparing for the possibility.

At issue is whether the government should ship U.S.-grown food overseas to aid developing countries and starving people or simply help those countries with cash to buy food. The United States now donates much of its food aid by shipping food abroad, a process many food aid groups say is inefficient.

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