{"id":1841,"date":"2016-07-21T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/pmil\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2016-07-21T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T13:44:20","slug":"president-obama-signs-feed-the-future-bill-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/2016\/07\/president-obama-signs-feed-the-future-bill-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama signs Feed the Future bill into law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama received a standing ovation when he announced on Wednesday that he had signed the Global Food Security Act, a bill that codifies Feed the Future into federal law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re not surprised I signed it, right?\u201d the president joked with a crowd gathered for a White House Summit for Global Development, a day of panel discussions about nutrition, global health and development. PMIL Director David Hoisington was among the invited guests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/pmil\/files\/2016\/07\/GlobalDevelopmentSummitt-DC-Jul2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1842\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/pmil\/files\/2016\/07\/GlobalDevelopmentSummitt-DC-Jul2016-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"GlobalDevelopmentSummitt-DC-Jul2016\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2016\/07\/GlobalDevelopmentSummitt-DC-Jul2016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2016\/07\/GlobalDevelopmentSummitt-DC-Jul2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2016\/07\/GlobalDevelopmentSummitt-DC-Jul2016-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/files\/2016\/07\/GlobalDevelopmentSummitt-DC-Jul2016-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/campaign\/globaldevelopment\">You can listen to the president\u2019s comments here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan Global Food Security Act authorizes more than $7 billion for international food programs, ensuring that presidential initiatives like Feed the Future \u201cendure well into the future,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama received a standing ovation when he announced on Wednesday that he had signed the Global Food Security Act, a bill that codifies Feed the Future into federal law. \u201cYou&#8217;re not surprised I signed it, right?\u201d the president joked with a crowd gathered for a White House Summit for Global Development, a day of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}