David Beasley: “in truth, instead of exporting food to help feed entire countries, the conflict means that Ukraine is now being forced…”

I cannot tell you how many times mothers would say to me, my son or husband did not want to join ISIS or al-Qaeda but we had not fed our little girl in 2 weeks. What were we supposed to do?

The question to me, to you is how quickly can you react in the major producing countries to offset not just Ukraine, but the crises that we are facing around the world.

when it comes to strategic international aid and food security, it is quite a remarkable thing to see everyone come together recognizing the catastrophe that we are facing.

funding for food security programs, both relief and development, could do more to prevent and combat extremism than many other measures the U.S. takes.