Roger Beachy, director of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture says a new grant program will help insure humanitarian assistance programs provide healthier food products for recipients. Beachy says it's their responsibility to make sure that in emergency situations, these people are receiving food that supplies them with the nutrients they need.
NIFA's Food Aid Nutritional Education Program supports the development and field testing of new ready-to-use foods, fortified blended foods, high-energy foods, micronutrient powders or other food products designed to improve the nutritional delivery and functional form of humanitarian food assistance. Projects funded may also field test existing food products that have not yet been approved for use in food aid programs.
Applications will be made available next month. Approximately $3.8 million in grants will be awarded in Fiscal Year 2010 on a competitive basis.
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