in nebraska the food bank of lincoln and the food banks of the heartland rely on the emergency food assistance program along with philanthropic support to distribute food to local food pantries and families in need. since the 2018 farm bill, we have also seen innovative programs outside designed to aid food banks such as the farmers to families food box program which has been quite successful in my state of nebraska. could you discuss lessons learned from the farmers to families food box program or other initiatives that help food banks to better service their partners? how could these lessons -- as we think about the upcoming farm bill? >> thank you i appreciate that question. you're exactly right that our food banks are incredible assets in the communities that they serve and we want to do a we can to support them as they feed our neighbors. i would say there are many lessons but i will take away to particularly from that endeavor that we want to carry forward. one is it is very clear that there are thousands of organizations throughout the country that are working to serve individuals and t

of food policy and politics. before you turn this over to helena is a former staffer myself and want to be clear to her audience that we have not asked for congressional staff to take a position on any of the recommendations in the report unless they want to the policies may be influenced by staff that their boss is the one with the election certificates that hang on the wall are the ones to make the final decision so with that he'll lean i'm turning it over to you. >> thank you so much bill. i'm delighted to be here to talk about such an important topic and thank you for the present of a policy center for having me. has no mention i'm the founder and editor-in-chief of food fix which is a newsletter about the policy. we have a fantastic line up today of staff to represent the four corners of the farm bill. what that means in washington is a poor post to make decisions the majority and the minority of the house and senate agriculture committee. when we hear that term four corners after we mean. we have sara who w

versus just handing out food.cause it will cost 1,000 times more, because i get that question, sarah, you can imagine, why should i send money, you know, from the united states or germany down to chad or guatemala when i've got education... funding...? but you have... the answer is... yeah. ok, but you have also said it's critical that pressure be brought to bear on the host nations, that they themselves take ownership of their own issues, almost suggesting that some conditionality be attached to the aid and that, possibly, you don't have the flexibility to do that. you've got a myriad of scenarios there, and each country's different, whether it be a marshall—style plan for every country because there should be expectations with regards to countries. now, one of the things i also add to donor countries is that in many of the places, regardless of the leadership in a nation, at least it provides food security so that people can take care of themselves and not be so vulnerable to the politics of their nation. and if

city he first day the money appears, he begins to spend it for a day for food for food for food and suchtrend is now talking a lot about food security, but mostly tied to very specific topics. it is clear that these topics are somehow affected, but they are passing. and here is what influences perspectively, if we look at the future e of the global food market, and these are technologies and these are approaches to e, consumption style. uh, this is some kind of climate, what is more important here are two things. here are today's challenges that consensus on everything agree with them. these are three words. food availability is lacking. this is the impact on the environment. e traditional technologies. we are kind of rough on the planet and too many compromises are already being made to feed these 8 billion there from pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones and so on. so this is how it is today, but if you look, try to just look at what big trends are. here determine uh, the future of the food market and look like five. the first is the growth in demand will find. that is, here, as it w

on funding the food and drug reform act of 2022 required formula and medical food -- food manufacturers to develop a supply redundancy risk management plan, mandated the creation of an office of critical foods at the fda and required critical food manufacturers to notify the fda of interruptions in manufacturing likely to lead to meaningful disruptions in supply. the agency needs additional authorities, they should have the authority to require manufacturers to notify the agency of all positive test results, and to require more frequent environmental testing at production facilities. it should also be able to compel manufacturers to submit supply chain data and although not an fda issue, it should be made a note of viable illness. second a food program requires more funding, rising costs have left the program with a number of ftes similar to what it had in 1978. since then the fda has been given increasing responsibilities including mandates over infant formula dietary supplements, food labeling and safety. the presidents budget calls for 152 million in necessary new funding for the foo

since early march, the world food program has been forced to reduce food aid to over a 1000000 refugees here due to a funding shortage. her meter already struggles to feed her kids. now, she worries, things will only get worse. de la la la and not getting any fish, meat or salt. now my kids are not getting fruit to eat. i that we used to have these things are meters to sons have food to day, but it's not enough. and they're not alone. nearly $1.00 and $8.00 growing the children is acutely malnourished. the mother suffer to some 40 percent of pregnant and breastfeeding women are anemic. and while the refugee camps have limited health care services, they have also seen their funding dry up in recent years. delilah delilah, ringo she rama that he can nasha ro hanging kids come to us with moderate and severe malnutrition right now that we identified them through screening bakery did they come with a lack of healthy food is causing the mel nutrition among them. mission develop with the fact that these kids just aren't getting vegetables, fish me and fruit formerly glow from hit by now. the c

food that they were eating the same food every day and also with the less calorie. so these are when robert people are exposed to every am stress factors and they have been medically exposed to, to, um, to them their immunity. the image is already weak and they're supposed to infectious diseases to the are, are quantity. this will be a more unstable and pleasant these impacts will also, in fact, in fact, our youth to the crimes our, our children are over, girls will be exposed to the crime, to the human trafficking, to the drug trafficking. and also this is a threat, not only for the our community, but also m a local committee and, and salsa global thread. our children, our youth, are people who will be engaged, wrote, and therefore, even in see that that the people are, are running away because there is more dignified life in the refugee camps are under me and my has been touted as the long term solution following your refugees who are in thompson, bangladesh nominee and miles of re to taken some 1000 residues starting next month and a pilot project. do think that

having a warm place to sleep, little food. the difficult thing was that the members of the kazakkhana and the soldiers and soldiers, whose position was a source of regret for the teenager , were poor and illiterate youths who needed a roof. and clothes and food, hard and ruthless men who were brought up with russian principles and food, and from early morning until dark evening , nothing came except military training and war drills. this is far from the daily life of ordinary people, and illiteracy and hard military training and maybe about life military service made the kazakh men completely cold and hard-hearted, and that was the reason why the people had nothing but fear of that man behind the machine guns and shooting at them because of the lack of food because of the cossacks' lack of strength . it was signed between iran and the russian government and it was during the second trip of naseruddin shah to russia that he got to know this military force. the word food is related to the russian region, which after all is russi

food assistance, while maintaining the legacy of food for peace programs. for example, reducing complex accounting requirements associate with the food for peace act, it would enable partners to spend more effort on delivering food assistance while maintaining strict oversight of funds. simplifying accounting systems will also reduce barriers to local organizations becoming partners. as you look for to reauthorizing with for peace, act i would also ask what you consider updating the nonemergency authorities to make u.s. commodities and resilience programs have programming option rather than a requirement. these nonemergency programs, known as resilience food security activities are relatively small, but an important part of our tool kit and fighting global hunger. these programs target the poorest households in areas of recurrent crisis and help families graduate from dependence on humanitarian aid. we would welcome working a seal and adjustments to this program to give partners greater flexibility to design programs that are tailored to the unique context

food plan. food baskets increase to the congress -- the updated baseline reviewed by cbo yesterday shows staff increased release from 2033 to 2032 by 93 billion dollars. likely, in large part, due to the usda having the ability to increase the cost of food under the safety food plan. again, in 2027, 2031. >> so ordered, without objection. >> thank you. again, i think the chairwoman very much for holding this important hearing and i look for to our witnesses. thank you. >> thank you so much. we will now turn to our deputy undersecretary dean. we're so glad to have you with us, both of you with us. but miss stacey dean's deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the u.s. department of agriculture. prior to this role, she served as vice president for food assistance policy at the center of budget and policy priorities. she earned her undergraduate masters degrees from the university of michigan. i won't hold that against, you as a michigan state university credit, we're so

so food production can be increased. this is a mixed warnings from south korea of a growing food crisis. thunderous applause for the great leader at a rare public gathering of north korea's ruling workers party, kim junglin has promised to increase farmland and boost grain production. as the secret of stalinist enclave faces the worsening food shortage, inflation of markets and devotes much of its scarce resources to expanding its nuclear arsenal. border lockdown to combat the code. 19 pandemic. global sanctions of north korea's nuclear programs plus, inadequate sunlight and damaging typhoons have combined to wreak havoc on the agriculture sector. the u. n says more than 10700000 north koreans. 41 percent of the population were undernourished between 20192021. this makes north korea the 4th most malnourished country in the world. despite the food shortage, north korea is extremely reluctant to accept foreign food aid. state media has likened to taking poisoned candy. gentlemen, for more benjamin's interest in, he's an ex

we take a food system approach. that means that we're looking at every single part, every activity that it takes to grow food, all the way to being on someone's table. so that starts with clearing land for agriculture. it starts with manufacturing, fertilizer and equipment. it includes all the on farm activities, crop production, livestock production, storage, transportation processing, retail. we take all those different boxes of activities and we study how those emit greenhouse gases, aggregate them, add them all up and are able to say the food system considered in its entirety. is responsible for one 3rd of total greenhouse gas emissions. it's an enormous amount. many of these emissions come from the stomachs of animals like these cows handle emit roughly 70 percent of all of livestock emissions. that's why the beef is the focus of so much attention with the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions related to nutrition is caused by clearing forests and draining people for agriculture. this land development is n

food production locally? >> a big piece of the development assistance with poverty reduction and increasing the yields of small holds farmers to increase food security in the long term. the bulk of that is emergency food assistance that we do have a small percentage above 10% of the program that is dedicated to longer-term resilience activities, these are activities often targeting small scale farmers were helping pastoralists to help them build resilience and be more able to withstand shocks by improving productivity yields using claimant smart agriculture day and we would like to work with you and your team as we were gone reauthorizing the farm bill i yield back. thank you madam chair. >> senator thune. >> thank you madam chair for holding today's hearing to consider trade and horticulture titles of the farm bill. i look forward to working with both of you with the witnesses and panelists for being here today to provide your input on this important topic and i know it's already been touched on and my colle

we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on

food right now.hat was comparing 2019 to 2023 numbers. 250,000 a month to 1 million a month. quadrupling the need. that is truly something. tell us how the united way area helps people experiencing food insecurity, we know it can often times be tough for people, say i am in need and i do need to know -- do need the additional assistance, now with benefits being slashed dramatically, how will they united way bay area step in to help? >> we have operated for decades, our 211 helpline, you can call 211 and be directed to a pantry near your house. for hours that are convenient for you. a lot have gone back to client choice. so it's like shopping, right? you get a cart and you go around. they have staff with volunteers that will help you. it is a good experience. i encourage people who need food to call 211. find out where your local pantry is. the other things we do here is -- what i do every day is we processed some federal money that comes in to support food and shelter agencies. we've been doing that

it's crazy in 2024 china's food consumption will be 2 trillion dollars to compare food market food inlion. and even the trade wars of the united states, although they hit supplies. the same soy. well, china immediately reimbursed it at the expense of other markets, and partly from russia, after all, not only russian ice cream, which has become a cult here with the serving of leaders in the middle kingdom, they love to turn the drum, the main feature of chinese feasts is this. here are the large round tables at which it is customary to gather in huge companies and usually these tables are full of plates. yes, each of which each one sitting here must reach out, but now modesty is declared in fashion. at the very top die appetite and rushes called for gray hair itself. after all, it turned out that orders. those are huge portions. yes , even in such an amount of a bowl of rice a day. it hasn't soaked in for a long time. here, every year , almost 18 million tons of food was sent to the trash , which would be enough to feed another 40 million people, which is comparable to the same ukraine

north korea's growing food shortages. multiple crises have combined to threaten food supply in the country. we look at how and nobel prize winner, maria ressa on the threat democracies are facing from misinformation and autocrats . ah, i british manager, welcome to deed of the news. asia ledger could join us, north korean leader kim doggone has ordered an expansion of farmland, so food production can be increased. this is a mixed warnings from south korea of a growing food crisis. thunderous applause for the great leader at a rare public gathering of north korea's ruling workers party, kim junglin has promised to increase farm land and boost grain production. as the secret of stalinist enclave faces the worsening food shortage tongue. for all the political pageantry and bows to accelerate prosperity. exactly how he plans to improve the food supplies. not clear. let me uni. north korea restricts the operation of markets and votes, much of its scarce resources to expanding its nuclear arsenal. border lockdown to come about the cove. 19 pandemic. global sanctions and north korea's nuclear pro

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in terms of food issues, and there will never be any worries . secondly, increase the income of the farmers. increase and encourage agriculture and continue. it is an extremely valuable product . also, the problem of water shortage can be solved. our agriculture became knowledge-based, and the problem of water shortage it will be resolved. we are at your service for the trip. hai khayam nekoui, honorable deputy minister of agriculture and head of the agricultural research, education and promotion organization, the guest of the honeymoon in the past year, considering that the slogan of the year was negotiation, how many knowledge-based companies are there in the discussion of knowledge-based companies? last year, the addition of universities were active in the field of agriculture, and now how many knowledge-based companies are there in total, the agricultural gateway, with which you are probably interacting, and one of my good services is the introduction of this category. and job creator in 1401 and we did a series of events last year to move th

food production is not exempt from this challenge.the other hand, we are witnessing soil erosion, limited water resources, and many unexpected events in our country . unfortunately, our countries also have unexpected events. now we have 125,000,000 ka it does not meet our food needs. considering the increase in our population in the current situation, the population growth rate is also not favorable. with this population growth rate, around 1430, the population is 103 million, and our food need is 175,380 million tomans, so we are with the current trend . we need to increase food production by 55 to 50 million tomans between 50 and 55 million tons . well, the resources are limited and will increase as we move forward. the question is whether we have the ability to produce food and be self-sufficient, especially in the strategic products that we have in the country. no, there are different views among experts one point of view is that the total capacity and capacity of the country is a maximum of 110 million tomans, which means that we