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The '''McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program''' ('''IFEP''') is a food aid program authorized in the [[Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002]] (P.L. 107–171, Sec. 3107, known as the 2002 Farm Bill) which provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities and associated financial and technical assistance to carry out preschool and school feeding programs in foreign countries.  Maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs also are authorized under this program.  It is named after former U.S. Senators [[George McGovern]] and [[Bob Dole]], who advocated in the U.S. Congress for its passage.<ref name="nyt-label">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/23/us/public-lives-a-mcgovern-liberal-who-s-content-to-stick-to-the-label.html | title=Public Lives: A McGovern Liberal Who's Content to Stick to the Label | author=Becker, Elizabeth | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=July 23, 2001 | authorlink=Elizabeth Becker (journalist)}}</ref><ref name="tln011201">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7YIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YqYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4712,1934808&dq=george+mcgovern+ambassador+food+bush&hl=en | title=Bush asks McGovern to keep post | newspaper=[[The Tuscaloosa News]] | date=January 12, 2001 | page=2A}}</ref>
The '''McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program''' ('''IFEP''') is a food aid program authorized in the [[Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002]] (P.L. 107–171, Sec. 3107, known as the 2002 Farm Bill) which provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities and associated financial and technical assistance to carry out preschool and school feeding programs in foreign countries.  Maternal, infant, and child nutrition programs also are authorized under this program.  It is named after former U.S. Senators [[George McGovern]] and [[Bob Dole]], who advocated in the U.S. Congress for its passage.<ref name="nyt-label">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/23/us/public-lives-a-mcgovern-liberal-who-s-content-to-stick-to-the-label.html | title=Public Lives: A McGovern Liberal Who's Content to Stick to the Label | author=Becker, Elizabeth | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=July 23, 2001 | authorlink=Elizabeth Becker (journalist)}}</ref><ref name="tln011201">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7YIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YqYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4712,1934808&dq=george+mcgovern+ambassador+food+bush&hl=en | title=Bush asks McGovern to keep post | newspaper=[[The Tuscaloosa News]] | date=January 12, 2001 | page=2A}}</ref>


The program provided more than 22 million [[school meal]]s to children in 41 countries over its first eight years.<ref name="ap-prize">{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-10-14-world-food-prize_N.htm | title=Dole, McGovern school program awarded World Food Prize | author=Jackson, Henry C. | agency=[[Associated Press]] | newspaper=[[USA Today]] | date=October 14, 2008}}</ref> It was also credited with improving school attendance, especially among girls, who were more likely to be allowed to go to school if a meal was being provided.<ref name="ap-prize"/> It continues on and is internationally popular.<ref name="lodi">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XwRSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uzQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4958,1198025&dq=mcgovern+dole+food+for+nutrition+and&hl=en | title=Farm bill has little aid for needy children abroad | agency=[[Associated Press]] | newspaper=[[Lodi News-Sentinel]] | date=May 14, 2008 | page=18}}</ref>  In 2008, McGovern and Dole were made [[World Food Prize]] laureates for their efforts to curb hunger in the world and in particular for this program.<ref name="ap-prize"/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/events/laureate_award_ceremony/2008_ceremony/ | title=The 2008 World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony Honoring Hon. Robert Dole and Hon. George McGovern | publisher=[[World Food Prize]] | access-date=October 15, 2010}}</ref>
The program provided more than 22 million [[school meal]]s to children in 41 countries over its first eight years.<ref name="ap-prize">{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-10-14-world-food-prize_N.htm | title=Dole, McGovern school program awarded World Food Prize | author=Jackson, Henry C. | agency=Associated Press | newspaper=[[USA Today]] | date=October 14, 2008}}</ref> It was also credited with improving school attendance, especially among girls, who were more likely to be allowed to go to school if a meal was being provided.<ref name="ap-prize"/> It continues on and is internationally popular.<ref name="lodi">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XwRSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uzQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4958,1198025&dq=mcgovern+dole+food+for+nutrition+and&hl=en | title=Farm bill has little aid for needy children abroad | agency=Associated Press | newspaper=[[Lodi News-Sentinel]] | date=May 14, 2008 | page=18}}</ref>  In 2008, McGovern and Dole were made [[World Food Prize]] laureates for their efforts to curb hunger in the world and in particular for this program.<ref name="ap-prize"/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/events/laureate_award_ceremony/2008_ceremony/ | title=The 2008 World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony Honoring Hon. Robert Dole and Hon. George McGovern | publisher=[[World Food Prize]] | access-date=October 15, 2010}}</ref>


==Background==
==Background==
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The program was first implemented in FY2003 with $100 million of [[Commodity Credit Corporation]] funds as stipulated in the 2002 farm bill.  Beginning in FY2004, the authorizing statute provides for the program to be carried out with appropriated funding.  The FY2004 agricultural appropriations act (P.L. 108–199) provided $50 million to carry out the program.
The program was first implemented in FY2003 with $100 million of [[Commodity Credit Corporation]] funds as stipulated in the 2002 farm bill.  Beginning in FY2004, the authorizing statute provides for the program to be carried out with appropriated funding.  The FY2004 agricultural appropriations act (P.L. 108–199) provided $50 million to carry out the program.


Subsequent funding was generally at $100 million a year.<ref name="more">{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2007-09-25-3677522660_x.htm | title=Ex-Senator seeks more food aid funding | author=Lammer, Dirk | agency=[[Associated Press]] | newspaper=[[USA Today]] | date=September 25, 2007}}</ref> There were attempts to give it more permanent funding levels during 2007 and 2008.<ref name="lodi"/> and it received an additional $80 million in 2009.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.fas.usda.gov/scriptsw/PressRelease/pressrel_dout.asp?Entry=valid&PrNum=0057-09 | title=Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Additional $80 Million in Food Assistance Under McGovern-Dole Program | publisher=[[Foreign Agricultural Service]] | date=April 7, 2009 | access-date=August 10, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018160418/http://www.fas.usda.gov/scriptsw/PressRelease/pressrel_dout.asp?Entry=valid&PrNum=0057-09 | archive-date=October 18, 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref> By 2011–2012, the funding level was around $200 million per year.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41812.pdf | title=U.S. Global Food Security Funding, FY2010–FY2012 | publisher=[[Congressional Research Service]] | date=April 28, 2011}}</ref> It was also credited with improving school attendance, especially among girls, who were more likely to be allowed to go to school if a meal was being provided.<ref name="ap-prize"/>
Subsequent funding was generally at $100 million a year.<ref name="more">{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2007-09-25-3677522660_x.htm | title=Ex-Senator seeks more food aid funding | author=Lammer, Dirk | agency=Associated Press | newspaper=[[USA Today]] | date=September 25, 2007}}</ref> There were attempts to give it more permanent funding levels during 2007 and 2008.<ref name="lodi"/> and it received an additional $80 million in 2009.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.fas.usda.gov/scriptsw/PressRelease/pressrel_dout.asp?Entry=valid&PrNum=0057-09 | title=Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Additional $80 Million in Food Assistance Under McGovern-Dole Program | publisher=[[Foreign Agricultural Service]] | date=April 7, 2009 | access-date=August 10, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018160418/http://www.fas.usda.gov/scriptsw/PressRelease/pressrel_dout.asp?Entry=valid&PrNum=0057-09 | archive-date=October 18, 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref> By 2011–2012, the funding level was around $200 million per year.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41812.pdf | title=U.S. Global Food Security Funding, FY2010–FY2012 | publisher=[[Congressional Research Service]] | date=April 28, 2011}}</ref> It was also credited with improving school attendance, especially among girls, who were more likely to be allowed to go to school if a meal was being provided.<ref name="ap-prize"/>


The 2018 budget outline of the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] eliminated funding for the program, stating that it "lacks evidence that it is being effectively implemented to reduce food insecurity".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf | title=America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again | publisher=The White House | access-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref>  However the outline was nondeterminative and the program continued on.  For FY2020, the funding level for the program was at $215 million.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/mcgovern-dole-food-education-program/mcgovern-dole-funding-fy-2020 | title=McGovern-Dole Funding – FY 2020 | publisher=Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture | access-date=December 6, 2021}}</ref>
The 2018 budget outline of the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] eliminated funding for the program, stating that it "lacks evidence that it is being effectively implemented to reduce food insecurity".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf | title=America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again | publisher=The White House | access-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref>  However the outline was nondeterminative and the program continued on.  For FY2020, the funding level for the program was at $215 million.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/mcgovern-dole-food-education-program/mcgovern-dole-funding-fy-2020 | title=McGovern-Dole Funding – FY 2020 | publisher=Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture | access-date=December 6, 2021}}</ref>
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