Within the U.S. Department of Agriculture is the Foreign Agricultural Service. Their work is now more important than ever, as the world faces high levels of food insecurity.
- The mission of the Foreign Agricultural Service is to represent the interest of American agriculture worldwide, according to Daniel Whitley, administrator at the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.
- The Foreign Agricultural Service has programs that are able to provide food for developing countries that are food insecure, he explained.
- Whitley thinks the Foreign Agricultural Service has the resources to fight the global food insecurity crisis.
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