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Six million children under age five are killed each year by malnutrition and related illnesses. The continuing rise in food prices is so great that the term “agflation” has been created to describe it. While the United States refugee and asylum program admits over approximately 70,000 people per year, there is no system in place where individuals suffering from starvation and food deprivation can be readily granted immigration relief. A proposed solution to this problem is the establishment of a natural disaster refugee program where the individuals from countries suffering the greatest are giving priority in being granted relief in the United States without having to establish a fear of persecution by governmental actors. Even with this new framework, additional change in solving international food shortages can be established in-country through a reformulation of the United States’ international food aid program by cutting out the agribusinesses and shifting aid to local producers and development of farming systems.