A simple step Congress can take to save more lives

[PaddyMac]

With one common sense reform to the U.S. food aid program, we can save many more lives without spending one cent more. With your help, we can convince Congress to pass that reform. Read more.

The United States provides food aid to millions of hungry people in places where war, famine, or severe poverty have disrupted food production or distribution. But U.S. law requires that nearly all food aid be grown in the U.S. and shipped at great expense across vast oceans.

Much of the aid winds up subsidizing U.S. agricultural and shipping companies and often undercutting poor farmers in the affected country, making it less likely they will be able to feed themselves in the future.

We can save more lives by changing the rules to allow some aid to be provided in cash either to purchase food locally or to allow poor people to buy food for themselves.

The Bush adminstration has already been convinced to support with this reform. We just need to convince Congress.