The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (IFEP) is a food aid program authorized in the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 3107) which provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities and associated financial and technical assistance to carry out preschool and school feeding programs in foreign countries. Maternal, infant and child nutrition programs also are authorized under this program. The program was first implemented in FY2003 with $100 million of Commodity Credit Corporation

Commodity Credit Corporation

The Commodity Credit Corporation is a wholly owned government corporation created in 1933 to "stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices"...

 funds as stipulated in the 2002 farm bill. Beginning in FY2004, the authorizing statute provides for the program to be carried out with appropriated funding. The FY2004 agricultural appropriations act (P.L. 108-199) provided $50 million to carry out the program. IFPED began in FY2000 as a pilot project and was called Global Food for Education Initiative

Global Food for Education Initiative

In the United States, the Global Food for Education Initiative was a pilot project, launched in FY2000, which used the donation of surplus agricultural commodities under Section 416 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 In the United States, the Global Food for Education Initiative (GFEI) was a pilot...

 (GFEI). It used the donation of surplus agricultural commodities under Section 416 of the Agricultural Act of 1949

Agricultural Act of 1949

The Agricultural Act of 1949 is a United States federal law that is known as the "permanent legislation" of U.S. agricultural policy and is, in its amended form, still in effect. The Act was enacted on October 31, 1949...

(P.L. 89-439, as amended) to support a global school feeding program.