Number: RL34478
Title: Rising Food Prices and Global Food Needs: The U.S. Response
Authors: Charles E. Hanrahan, Resources, Science, and Industry Division 
Abstract: The United States has responded to the World Food Program (WFP) appeal for food aid and its own food aid funding shortfall by announcing a release of $200 million from the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust (BEHT), a reserve of commodities and cash that can be used to meet unanticipated emergency food aid needs. Congress is considering an FY2008 emergency supplemental appropriation for emergency food aid requested by the Administration. The President announced on May 1, 2009 a request for Congress to appropriate an additional $770 million in FY2009 to deal with the international food situation.
Pages: 19
Date: May 8, 2008