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1400ET/1900BST: Senate Hearing On Food Security Ahead Of Biden Remarks

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The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on State, Foreign Relations, and Related Programs will conduct a hearing entitled: 'The Global Food Security and COVID-19 Crises: US Response and Policy Options.'

  • A livestream will be availiable here: https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/the...
  • The Honorable David Beasley, Executive Director of World Food Programme, will provide expert testimony on the ramifications of food crisis due to the war in Ukraine.
  • President Biden is touring a farm in Illinois today and this afternoon and will deliver remarks at 14:15 ET 19:15 BST on 'the impact of Putin's invasion of Ukraine on food supply and prices at home and abroad.'
  • Biden is expected to outline the administration's plans to utilise US agricultural exports to relieve the financial pressures on global food markets.

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