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- FY 2008 U.S. International Food Assistance Report (1,053kb,PDF)
- FANTA's Title II Relevant Material Request Form
- Final Report on Development of an Emergency Food Product
- Budget and AER for PVO rapid response - DRAFT (Excel, 188kb)
- PVO Emergency Proposals - DRAFT (Word, 45kb)
- Supplemental Title II Proposal Guidance for Burundi and Guatemala Preventing Malnutrition in Children Under Two Approach - FINAL. (word, 45kb)
- FFP Response to PM2A Comments. (word, 50kb)
- Commodity Calculator for May and June Calls Forward, updated 4/16/09 (excel, 184kb)
- FY 2009 Title II Procurement Schedule (pdf, 71.8kb)
- Market Assistance Program - Field Manual (pdf, 72.7kb)
- FY09 Title II Guidelines (Final)
- Trigger Indicators and Early Warning and Response Systems in MYAPs (250kb, PDF)
- FY 2007 U.S. International Food Assistance Report (358kb,PDF)
- Food for Peace Strategic Plan for 2006-2010 (PDF)
- HIV and Food Security Conceptual Framework: Food for Peace and PEPFAR (125kb, pdf)
- Weekly Emergency Call Forward Status Report
- Weekly Non-Emergency Call Forward Status Report
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The History of America's Food Aid
America's food assistance programs began in 1812, when President James Madison sent emergency aid to earthquake victims in Venezuela. Herbert Hoover led a huge feeding program in Russia during the 1920's, in addition to famine relief programs during World War I and World War II in Europe. In 1949, the United States launched the Marshall Plan, which brought tons of food to the people of Western Europe, planted the seeds for a rejuvenated U.S. food aid program. Many European countries we helped at that time have long since become major food exporters and important international donors.
On July, 10, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Agricultural Trade Development Assistance Act, or Public Law 480, into law. The purpose of the legislation, the President said, was to "lay the basis for a permanent expansion of our exports of agricultural products with lasting benefits to ourselves and peoples and peoples of other lands."
| Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want | | - President John F. Kennedy |
Since that day, the lasting benefits President Eisenhower envisioned have come to pass. The 106 million metric tons of the U.S. has sent overseas over the past 50 years under Title II, the largest part of PL 480, have kept billions of people of people from hunger, malnutrition, and starvation while creating thousands of jobs in the U.S. and abroad.
Early in his administration, President John F. Kennedy underlined the importance of PL 480 to the U.S.- and the rest of the world- by renaming it "Food for Peace" and placing it in the newly created U.S. Agency for International Development. "Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want," Kennedy said.
Since its inception, Food for Peace has adapted several times to accommodate changing needs around the world. Programs currently focus primarily on sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asian subcontinent. Despite these changes, the objectives have remained the same: fighting hunger and malnutrition and promoting sustained economic growth and development.
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