food aid – Food (Policy) For Thought

June 12, 2013

IF … Policymakers Would Listen to Civil Society?

This weekend, David Cameron hosted the G8 “Hunger Summit” in Northern Ireland, resulting in promises, pledges, praise – and a lot of backlash from African civil society, who this summit was supposed to help. What was the problem? (the IF campaign actually had a really good promotion video.) Prior to the summit, Cameron announced his … Continue reading IF … Policymakers Would Listen to Civil Society?

April 2, 2013

Is the "Optimization" of Food Aid Ethical?

A friend of mine sent me a link to this paper titled “Ready-to-use food-allocation policy to reduce the effects of childhood undernutrition in developing countries” – originally more as a “look at what weird things get published” link, but as I read through the abstract, it got me thinking…