The USAID shutdown halts USAID’s purchases for “Food for Peace.” Halting “Food for Peace” impacts the market for sorghum. Should farmers just pile it on the ground and wait a few years?
- The shutdown escalates hunger in Africa and other regions, resulting in desperate people “voting with their feet.” They want to feed their children and seek out places with food.
- The consequences? Babies die. Their parents, striving to save more of their children, immigrate—often slipping across borders to countries like the U.S., which has food.
- Farmers lacking markets go bankrupt.