Food & Water Watch: Midwest Family Farm Groups Want Aid to Get to People, Not Global Agribusiness
April 08, 2020
April 08, 2020
WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release:
Family farm based organizations in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and South Dakota sent a letter to Congress calling for strong oversight of the recently passed COVID-19 aid package to ensure the U.S. Department of Agriculture disburses aid to people and rural communities, not global agribusiness firms that reaped tens of millions of dollars from recent trade-aid payments.
In the letter, the C . . .
Family farm based organizations in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and South Dakota sent a letter to Congress calling for strong oversight of the recently passed COVID-19 aid package to ensure the U.S. Department of Agriculture disburses aid to people and rural communities, not global agribusiness firms that reaped tens of millions of dollars from recent trade-aid payments.
In the letter, the C . . .