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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaedp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points The United States international emergency food aid program has done a tremendous arnount ofgooci for pe0ph in dire need of help since it was first aunched nearly 70 years ago in 1954, However, mandates that force the programn to buy almost all US food aic at home ard ship at east hlf of it on U -regiter-d vessels or xcep ionaly costly in oudgerary and humanitarian terrs and are damagng to natioal security by limiting the exercise of soft power. At the sam tim. , the d -omestc policy ratiOnales used to ustify those mandates in 1954 have effectively disappeared over the past :t or o years The rest of the wrl 's emergency Fod aid d onors have shred the shackles of pro- curerment an shippirng mandates, As commneril shipping treight rates and foo prices continue to soar, severm y constritnrg rhe US Agercy for International D velnpment's ability to use the fxed budget aliccated frh irtemational fccd aid pr gra i time for the US to follo su;t Major commuonsense reforns tote Us emergency food aid program are urgently needed. Global food prices and deepwater transoceanic Reight rates have surged, while world hunger has spiked amid the CCWID -ig9 pandemic and its associated eco- nomic disruptions. Higher food and freight rates significantly reduce the capacity of the US Agency for International Development (USAID to use its fixed annual budget for international emergency food aid to meet the pressing needs of por fami- lies facing hunger and malnutrition. Congress could help by ending two 6 -year-old mandates that today benefit or-v a handful of US regstered conmercial shipping companes, some of which are only notio-nally based in the United States. Those two mandates reg-uire sourc- ing almost all food for international emergency aid in the United States, with at least :o percent of the food carried on U-registered vessels, a mandate

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