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United States Is Ready To Provide Urgent Humanitarian Aid to the People of Venezuela

Today, Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the United States is ready to provide more than $20 million in initial humanitarian assistance to the people of Venezuela as they struggle to cope with severe food and medicine shortages and the other dire impacts of their country’s political and economic crisis caused by the illegitimate Maduro ...

By USUN Rome Mission | 25 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, News, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Food Security, Venezuela, WFP

U.S. helps Venezuelans in Colombia

Venezuelans who have fled to Colombia to escape the humanitarian crisis in their home country are receiving food and health assistance as part of a $2.5 million aid package from the United States. The U.S. has already devoted nearly $100 million to support Venezuelan refugees, Vice President Pence said January 22.

By USUN Rome Mission | 24 January, 2019 | Topics: Uncategorized

Remarks by Chargé d’Affaires Thomas Duffy at the Opening of the WFP Executive Board

Executive Director Beasley, thank you for your tireless efforts in places such as Yemen recently where you were able to raise awareness, highlighting the plight of the vulnerable and WFP’s leading role in accessing conflict zones in some of the most geopolitically and logistically challenging parts of the globe.

By USUN Rome Mission | 26 November, 2018 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, News, Speeches | Tags: Humanitarian Assistance, Resilience, WFP

Fan-Li Chou, Biotechnology Coordinator, USDA, participates in FAO Agricultural Innovation Symposium

"As a government entity, at USDA we don’t pick and choose what’s good – what’s bad," said Chou. "We just tell you what’s useful. In the U.S. we always say we have a big umbrella: we have organic agriculture, we have conventional agriculture, we have biotech agriculture. They all coexist with each other. It is ...

By USUN Rome Mission | 25 November, 2018 | Topics: Agriculture, Key Officials, News | Tags: agriculture, Biotechnology, FAO, farmers, Innovation

Can once-toxic cottonseeds help feed the world?

A new variety of cotton plant that produces an abundance of edible seeds has just gotten approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for commercial farming. A team of researchers at Texas A&M University found a way to remove an element that made cottonseed toxic. If farmers wind up planting the seed widely, it could ...

By USUN Rome Mission | 26 October, 2018 | Topics: Agriculture, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Biotechnology, USDA

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