"The U.S. Food for Peace, a food aid program with an annual $2 billion price tag, is reportedly being considered to be replaced with a more direct cash donation system, angering [some] senators and grassroots organizations," Devex's "Pennsylvania Ave." blog reports. "No official announcement has come out yet, but at least 20 U.S. senators [.pdf] and 70 organizations [.pdf] have written to [President Obama], asking him to keep the system as it is," the blog writes (Morales, 2/27). However, "[a]dvocacy groups working on global hunger and poverty are hailing rumored proposals that would change the way the United States distributes its international food aid," Inter Press Service notes.