David Beasley: “What the United States has done in stepping up is absolutely extraordinary.”

Food can't be weaponized. It just cannot.

Unfortunately, because of the lack of funds that we were faced with in the last few months, we have been having to take food from the hungry children to give to starving children, which is a situation that none of us like to be in.

If we are able to feed 200 million people, that means that we can actually cut hunger in Africa by 80 percent.

At a minimum, an additional $5 billion dollars for food assistance from the United States will provide WFP and other aid agencies with the support we need to stem the rising tide of famine.