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Acknowledgements

Bread for the World Institute wishes to thank the following people individually for their contribution to this report. Several people contributed articles to the report:  Ken Cook, Environmental Working Group; Vicki Escarra, Feeding America; Matt Newell-Ching, Bread for the World; Jeannie Economos, Farm Worker Association of Florida; Ivone Guillen, Sojourners (formerly an Institute Immigration Policy Fellow); Philip Martin, University of California, Davis; Stephanie Hanson, One Acre Fund; Rebecca Vander Meulen, Anglican Diocese of Niassa (Mozambique).

Others who shared their insights: Robin Robbins, Appalachian Sustainable Development; Arlyn Schipper, Foods Resource Bank; Jennifer Fike, Michigan Department of Agriculture; Paul Green, North American Millers Association; Tianna Gaines-Turner, Mariana Chilton, and Jenny Rabinowich, Witnesses to Hunger; Thomas Melito, Phil Thomas, and Joy Labez, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Stuart Clark, Canadian Foodgrains Bank; Kathleen Kurz, DAI; Mary Minette, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; David DeGennarro, Environmental Working Group; Adrienne DeVartanian, Miriam Strauss, and Victoria Kornick with Farm Worker Justice; Sophie Milam, Feeding America; Christopher Goldthwait and Mary Chambliss, food aid consultants; Jennifer N’gandu, National Council of La Raza; Jasmine N. Hall Ratliff and Arielle Traub, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Heather Hanson, Mercy Corps; Gabrielle Serra, Meridian Institute; Judit Ruis, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders); Laura Demmel, National Farmers Union; Kendell Keith, National Feed and Grain Association; Eric Muñoz, Oxfam America; Elizabeth Kucinich, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; Rick Swartz, Strategic Solutions; Charles Uphaus, U.S. Agency for International Development; Jay Hirschman, Lindy Haffey, Kelly Kennison, Jessica Shahin, Julie Brewer, Loren LaCorte, Tom Hertz, Cynthia Reeves Tuttle, Isabel Walls, and Christina Conell, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Daniel Carroll, U.S. Department of Labor; Allan Jury, World Food Program; Gabriel Laizer and Daniel Gustafson, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Margaret Ziegler, Congressional Hunger Center; Marie Brill, ActionAid; Teresa Hendricks, Migrant Legal Aid; Beatriz Maya, Farm Labor Organizing Committee; Rubén Martinez and William Knudson, Michigan State University; Diego Reyes, Farm Labor Organizing Committee; Nancy Foster, U.S. Apple Association; Jerry Gonzalez, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials; Bryan Tolar, Georgia Agribusiness Council; Janine Duron and Chuck Barrett, CITA/Amanecer; Bert Perry and Lariza Garzón, National Farm Worker Ministry, Florida; Rob Williams, Florida Legal Services; Jeannie Economos and Elva Rincón, Farm Worker Association of Florida; Manuel Cunha, Nisei Farmers League; Dawson Morton, Georgia Legal Services; Greg Schell, Migrant Farmworker Justice Project; Lynnette Asselin and Mary DeLorey, Catholic Relief Services; Dennis Harding and Dave Miller, Iowa Farm Bureau; Chris Peterson, Iowa Farmers Union; Michael Duffy and Chad Hart, Iowa State University; Donald Coe, Michigan Department of Agriculture; Renne DeWindt, Food Services Director, Benzie County (MI); Doug Davis, Food Services Director, Burlington (VT); Lee LaVanway, Benton Harbor Fruit Market; Carey Miller, Iowa Food Bank; Kathy Mulvey, Community Food Security Coalition; Dianne Conners, Michigan Land Institute; and a number of farmers and farm workers from around the United States.

For helping us think through the Comprehensive Risk Management proposal, we wish to thank Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University; Dan Sumner, University of California, Davis; David Orden, International Food Policy Research Institute; Charlotte Hebebrand, International Food and Trade Policy Council; David Blandford, Penn State; Douglas Hedley, former Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Canada; and special thanks to Robert L. Thompson, Johns Hopkins University, and Stephanie Mercier, former Chief Economist for the Senate Agricultural Committee.

Finally, we wish to thank all of our colleagues at Bread for the World and the Alliance to End Hunger. Some of these deserve special notice: Tammy Walhof, Nancy Neal, Carter Echols, and Zachary Schmidt of Organizing and Church Relations for their work on the Christian Study Guide; Laura Elizabeth Pohl, Molly Marsh, Hans Friedhoff, Doug Puller, Kristen Youngblood, Racine Tucker-Hamilton, Jeannie Choi, and Adlai Amor for help with text, images, and technology, and for their general wizardry; Mannik Sakayan, Christine Melendez-Ashley, and Monica Mills of Government Relations.