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Publish Date : 16-Jul-2016

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications for projects to be funded in fiscal year 2016 under the Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement (LRP) program authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill.

Through the LRP program, USDAs Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) will work with partners to implement field-based projects in developing countries through the use of locally procured commodities. These efforts will complement existing U.S. government food assistance programs, especially the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which supports school feeding and maternal and child nutrition projects around the world. Congress appropriated $5 million through the McGovern-Dole program to support LRP projects in fiscal year 2016.

Several studies, as well as a number of pilot projects authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill, have demonstrated that locally procured food assistance works as part of our overall food assistance strategy, said USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Jonathan Cordone. We know from USDAs own Farm to School initiatives that bringing locally grown foods into schools helps children and local growers. With LRP we can bring those same benefits to our international school meals programs by providing new foods, like fresh fruits and vegetables, and supporting the ability of those communities to feed themselves. This program provides an important new tool to combat hunger and malnutrition.

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