The Global Food Security Act passes in the House

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The United States House of Representatives just passed the Global Food Security Act (H.R. 1576) a new bill that takes steps to fight worldwide hunger by empowering and supporting small-scale local farmers.

The Global Food Security Act authorizes a U.S. global food an nutrition security strategy to help support farmers in small scale sustainable farming.

“In the world’s poorest countries, malnutrition and stunting affect hundreds of millions of people and undermine the development of entire countries. This tragedy is made all the worse because it is completely preventable,” Representative McCollum said on her site. “The Global Food Security Act invests in hardworking smallholder farmers around the world to reduce hunger and improve nutrition. In particular, it empowers women farmers with the tools, resources, education, and training they need to grow their way out of poverty.”

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