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How to feed 800 million: The battle over the future of US food aid

November 14, 2017
The United States is by far the most generous contributor to international food aid. Every year for the past decade, the U.S. gave between two and five times more funding to the U.N.'s World Food Program than the next largest donor.But American food aid is bound by restrictions that don't apply to other major donor nations.