Congress, Keep Our Promise to End Global Hunger

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In 2016, the United States made history by passing the Global Food Security Act (GFSA) into law. This bipartisan legislation marks a major advance for reducing the chronic hunger that afflicts more than 800 million children and adults around the world.

The GFSA is set to expire at the end of September, unless it is reauthorized by Congress. Reauthorization will assure that vital food security programs, including those helping vulnerable people to combat the effects of climate change, continue. Speak out now and urge the House of Representatives to support the Global Food Security Reauthorization Act (S.2269).

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I am joining with CARE Action advocates to urge you to support passage of the Global Food Security Reauthorization Act (S. 2269) and full funding for the programs it authorizes. This will ensure that we keep our commitment to fighting food insecurity and malnutrition around the world.

More than 800 million people -- including tens of millions of children -- suffer from chronic hunger. In fact, hunger and malnutrition kill more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The Global Food Security Act produced the Global Food Security Strategy, a comprehensive plan that demands effective and sustainable programs to tackle hunger, poverty, and build on what we know works, including investments in women and smallholder farmers.

The GFSA was meant to institute a comprehensive and coordinated U.S. strategy that focuses on empowering local communities to address hunger, and we have seen truly amazing results, such as a 32 percent increase in maize production in Zambia, $146 million in new income earned by farmers in Bangladesh, and a nine percent reduction in child stunting in Ethiopia. However, despite these many successes, food insecurity around the world, often due to conflict and instability, makes these programs more urgent and vital than ever. All of our progress will be jeopardized if the Global Food Security Act is not reauthorized before its expiration and if the programs it authorizes are not fully funded.

We made history in passing the Global Food Security Act. Please don't let this landmark, bipartisan achievement be put at risk. I'm asking you to take a stand against world hunger and support reauthorization and full funding of the GFSA now.

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