Pakistan is seeking 500,000 tonnes of wheat from the United States under PL-480 – a controversial US food assistance programme – to tackle the food crisis. The request for ‘concessional ...

WASHINGTON — US international food assistance capacity was given a tremendous ... and donate abroad US agricultural commodities under PL 480 Title II, known as the Food for Peace program ...

With devastating indifference, President Donald Trump and his special assistant Elon Musk have crippled Food for Peace ... Critics branded PL 480 a clumsy Republican “dumping program ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget released April 10 includes a dramatic overhaul of U.S. international food assistance programs. Fresh ideas. Served daily.

International food aid in the modern era began in 1954 with the passage of the Food for Peace Act (PL 83-480), commonly referred to as PL 480, which established the Food for Peace programs. Since then ...

PL-480 allowed countries like India to buy US grain with local currency, easing their foreign exchange burden and reducing US surpluses. India was one of the largest recipients of this food aid ...

Before that, India signed a long-term Public Law (PL) 480 agreement to get food aid under Government agricultural trade development assistance, with the US in 1954. The agreement was signed a few ...

Kennedy meets with his Food ... 480, enacted under Dwight Eisenhower, in 1954, to reduce America's ruinous postwar agricultural surpluses by distributing them overseas. Critics branded PL 480 ...