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FOREIGN DONATIONS PROGRAMS
American farm products are donated
under titles II and III of P.L. 480
for many purposes, including child
feeding, disaster relief, and self-help
Programs thatprovidefood for work.
Food for Peace donations reachedan
estimated 93 million people in 1965.
Title II Donations
Foreign donation programs are carried out under
several authorities of Public Law 480 designed to make
maximum effective use of food in meeting human need
and in promoting economic and community development
(title II, sections 201, 202, and 203; and title
III, section 302).
Title II of Public Law 480 authorizes the use of stocks
held by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) for
disaster relief, community development, school feeding,
and other economic development purposes. Under
current title II legislation, programs up to $400 million
annually plus carryover from previous years' authorizations,
may be approved during each calendar year
through December 31, 1966.
Section 201 authorizes commodity donations to either
friendly countries, or to friendly people without regard
to the friendliness of their government, to meet famine
or other urgent or extraordinary relief requirements.
Under this authority, in 1965, the United States provided
food assistance to victims of various disasters, such
as a volcanic eruption in the Philippines, a cyclone in
Pakistan, an earthquake in El Salvador, droughts in
Chile, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Mali, and the Somali
Republic, floods in Korea, and civil strife in Iraq and the
Dominican Republic.
Over 6 million people received assistance in the form
of more than 356,000 tons of food with a CCC value of
$71 million. See table XXIX for details of programs
undertaken in 1965.
Section 202 authorizes commodity donations through
programs conducted by friendly governments, voluntary
relief agencies, or intergovernmental organizations to
promote economic and community development.
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