Boom challenge for food aid policy
Published: February 6 2008 20:30 | Last updated: February 6 2008 20:30
The global commodities boom has done more than enrich a few farmers. It has pushed hunger and malnutrition back up the agenda of aid donors and intensified the challenge to the United Nations World Food Programme, the biggest food aid agency, of feeding poor countries devastated by natural disaster or war.
It has also given fresh urgency to a debate in the US, the world’s largest donor of food aid, about Washington’s practice of giving commodities direct rather than providing cash to buy them on the open market.
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