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Thought-provoking articles that deal with hunger and the issues involved in meeting the hunger challenge.
19 January 2012
From emergency aid to development aid: agencies are failing to connect
Bridging the gap between emergency humanitarian aid and long-term development aid is essential to help people survive disasters and get back on the path to self-reliance and dignity (..) The shift from humanitarian to development aid requires planning. And yet the two groups often fail to co-ordinate, and effectively overlap their operations to ensure a smooth transition.
The Guardian
20 December 2011
The speculative scrum driving up food prices
Bankers, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds are gambling on hunger by speculating on food supply. Global regulators should step in to stop them.
The Guardian
2 November 2011
Embracing Enlightened Capitalism
(Remarks by Dr. Rajiv Shah Administrator, USAID) For the vast majority of human history, mankind has been stuck in a trap.
Every time the world economy expanded or technology would progress, populations would increase. Besides an extremely small number of royals and elites, on average, people didn’t become wealthier. Economic growth and development as we understand it today simply didn’t exist.
USAID
2 November 2011
Embracing Enlightened Capitalism
(Remarks by Dr. Rajiv Shah Administrator, USAID) For the vast majority of human history, mankind has been stuck in a trap.
Every time the world economy expanded or technology would progress, populations would increase. Besides an extremely small number of royals and elites, on average, people didn’t become wealthier. Economic growth and development as we understand it today simply didn’t exist.
USAID
28 October 2011
In Famine, Vouchers Can Be Tickets to Survival
The town of Dhobley, Somalia, sits at the gateway of hell. Just west of Dhobley is the border with Kenya, and the road to Dadaab, which hosts a giant complex of refugee camps; Dhobley has become the last stop in Somalia for a growing stream of desperate, starving people in flight from famine. In Dhobley, as well, drought has ruined crops and felled cows.
The New York Times