NEW YORK, NY- Efforts to reform the United States’ outdated international food aid system gained a significant boost today when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) and African Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced the Food for Peace Reform Act of 2014.

American Jewish World Service Fought for and Lauds Progress in Helping Poor Countries Feed Themselves New York, NY-American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the leading Jewish international development and human rights organization, applauds the new reforms to the United States’ international food aid programs passed today by the U.S. Senate as part of the Agricultural Act …

Washington, DC, May 16, 2013 This statement is delivered on behalf of the following endorsing organizations: American Jewish World Service, Bread for the World, CARE, Church World Service, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, Oxfam America and Partners in Health. The endorsing organizations listed above applaud bi-partisan legislation introduced yesterday by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed …

Statement from International Aid Groups on Draft House and Senate Farm Bills May 10, 2013 (Washington, DC)—American Jewish World Service, Bread for the World, CARE, The Modernizing Assistance Network, Oxfam America and Save the Children released the following statement today in advance of the Senate and House committee mark-ups of the 2013 Farm Bill: “With …

New York, NY; May 1, 2013—We are not surprised to see lobbyists for Big Ag come out with guns blazing against President Obama’s forward-looking proposal to reform U.S. food aid to poor countries. The proposal would feed at least 4 million more people without costing taxpayers an extra dime. The special interests that oppose the …