District 3 Congressman Kat Kamak said the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences supports global efforts to combat food insecurity.
Cammack, who was re-elected to a second term earlier this month, will meet with UF/IFAS Institute leaders on Monday to discuss how its global initiative has impacted policies in other countries and improved health outcomes. I was.
As Florida’s only Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, she understands the correlation between food insecurity, hunger, and terrorism.
“It’s no secret that food security is national security,” Kamak said.
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Speakers at the event included Scott Angle, Senior Vice President of IFAS and Gbola Adegosan, Vice President and Director of the Global Food System, who said catastrophic events such as COVID-19 and the Russian-Ukrainian War have led to food insecurity. and demonstrated how agricultural research is crucial to feeding the world’s population.
“We stand by you, not just in name. We recognize the importance of that.”
Cammack was a strong proponent of agricultural research, but it took him a long time to visit IFAS, Angle said. He said his office has been trying to link up for about a year.
“Congressmen are interested in agriculture, and given that the University of Florida is doing a lot of work in that area,” Angle said. to support those programs. ”
Representing Alachua, Bradford and Clay counties, Camack and his predecessor Ted Yoho are supporters of the Global Food Security Act passed in 2016.
Adegosan said he wants legislators to hear how livestock products improve nutrition for vulnerable people around the world, saying children in food-insecure countries are suffering from malnutrition. “They will live an immature life for the rest of their lives,” he added.
“Today’s event was to highlight the importance of this, to reconnect with her and to put this front and center. It is also important to national security in that it strengthens our ability to create and produce food, and develops trade in those countries with entities that create goodwill towards the United States.”