Feed the Future is the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative. When the global food crisis hit in 2007-2008, the government responded by investing $1.5 billion of foreign aid in food and other immediate humanitarian needs. At the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy in July 2009, leaders from around the world compacted to "act with the scale and urgency needed to achieve sustainable global food security."
