4-23 IAT GMO Hunger

 The National FFA Organization has awarded more than $320,000 in grant money for its "FFA: Food for All" program, which provides local FFA chapters throughout the U.S. funding to support year-long service-learning projects focused on developing and implementing sustainable hunger programs. Service-learning is a method of teaching and learning that challenges students to identify, research, develop and implement solutions to identified needs in their school or community as part of their curriculum.The initiative provided up to $2,500 to 132 chapters in 42 states this year to help local FFA chapters with their programs. All of the projects will rely on FFA members for implementation. In addition to providing food for local residents in need, FFA members will provide helpful information regarding the care, preparation and preservation of food.

Someone who does not need a grant to figure out the challenges with  domestic as well as world hunger is Ayla Neumeyer the Idaho FFA Vice President and a student at the University of Idaho majoring in agribusiness and political science. Ayla feels strongly about supporting genetically modified crop production. “If we want to feed our own country, let alone the whole world, we have to continue to increase that technology.”