The Revamped Food for Peace Program Bypasses Countries Closest to Famine | Council on Foreign Relations (opens in new tab)

After DOGE dismantled USAID in 2025, the United States’ oldest emergency food aid program—Food for Peace—was moved to USDA, an agency with no crisis-response expertise. Now, Food for Peace is sending U.S.-grown commodities to nonemergency countries, bypassing Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan—all places in or barreling toward famine.