Congress pledges billions to the world’s small farmers

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By Nathanael JohnsonJul 7, 2016, 4:23 pm134 pts
Everyone in my Twitter feed has been yelling about the GMO-labeling bill that passed the Senate on Wednesday, but few people noticed the much more important bill that passed almost simultaneously. That bill, the Global Food Security Act, provides more than $1 billion a year to support small farmers in…

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