The Global Food Security Act of 2015 is looking for another shot in the U.S. Senate, but some insiders have speculated the bill could get tangled with efforts to reform other long-embattled U.S. policies around food aid.
Sens. Robert Casey, Democrat from Pennsylvania, and John Isakson, Republican from Georgia, plan to reintroduce the bill any day. The bill has passed the House of Representatives twice, but has so far failed to pass the Senate, and is now up against a bill that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, Republican from Tennessee, is currently drafting that will combine a host of food aid interests into one comprehensive bill.
If it passes, the bill would authorize Feed the Future — launched in 2010 — to continue beyond this administration’s tenure. The initiative is a hallmark of this administration and former U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah — a $1 billion program that fights hunger with agricultural programs in 19 countries.
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Claire Luke
Claire is a journalist passionate about all things development, with a particular interest in labor, having worked previously for the Indonesia-based International Labor Organization. She has experience reporting in Cambodia, Nicaragua and Burma, and is happy to be immersed in the action of D.C. Claire is a master's candidate in development economics at the George Washington Elliott School of International Affairs and received her bachelor's degree in political philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross.
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