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"The conference agreement on the 2008 [U.S.] Farm Bill makes numerous improvements in domestic food assistance programs to help low-income Americans put food on the table in the face of rising food and fuel prices," says policy analyst Dottie Rosenbaum.
From: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Selling excess rice held in Japan and imported from the United States would incite a rapid drop in the global price of rice but requires immediate action from Tokyo and Washington, write former editor of The Rice Trader, Tom Slayton, and policy analyst, Peter Timmer.

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• Action Against Hunger-USA
• Center for Global Development
• Center for Rural Strategies
• Cultural Survival, Inc.
• Earth Policy Institute
• Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
• Food for Life Global
• Global Exchange
• GlobalGiving
• Global Partners for Development
• Grassroots International
• Heifer International
• InterAction: American Council on Voluntary International Action
• International Food Policy Research Institute
• Lutheran World Relief
• Mercy Corps
• Oxfam America
• Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
• Worldwatch Institutes