Posted September 12, 2014
Debbie
Stabenow, Senate Agriculture
Committee Chairwoman, was awarded the World Food Program
USA's McGovern-Dole Leadership Award, according to an Agri-Pulse article by
Daniel Enoch available here.
The award
is the highest honor for Stabenow’s global effort to fight hunger and provide
aid to those in need.
“A new
program established by Senator Stabenow - just a few words of text in the bill
- will have a transformative impact,” said Rick Leach, president and CEO of
World Food Program USA. “Now we can buy food from small-scale farmers, who
often suffer from hunger, to feed children in school. Through this effort, we
can lift the first group out of hunger and extreme poverty while providing hope
and opportunity for the second.”
Stabenow
was honored to be an award recipient.
“This
award means so much to me because I know the World Food Program travels to the
ends of the earth - literally - to deliver food and supplies to men, women and
children. Deliveries that may be the difference between life and death,”
said Stabenow.
“As
Americans, we are compelled to help alleviate global hunger because it's simply
the right thing to do. It's also the smart thing to do. International aid is
more than a Band-Aid - it's a building block to create stronger economies
around the world. Food security is a stabilizing force in destabilized regions.
By fighting global hunger and strengthening local agricultural economies, we
are enhancing global security.”
For more
information about the World Food Program, please visit their website here.
For more information on farm bills and disaster programs,
please visit the National Agricultural Law Center’s website here and here.
