[hellgas00]

The CNN article references the Bengal famine of 1943, specifically prioritizing food delivery to military personnel during WW2. The Food for Peace Act of came into effect in 1954.

[seltzered_]

Fair point, but I wonder how much that event led to international support that mightve been well intentioned but also with potential issues, thinking more in the context of the Green Revolution (Norman borlaug documentary https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/man-who-tr... ) and critiques of it ( see 'The Globalization of Wheat' https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947349/ )