Africafaminecrisis–Malawitoday.pptVIP

Copyright 2006 Tim Feddersen Africa famine crisis – Malawi today Final Project: Famine Relief* More than 850 million people are chronically undernourished around the world. The chances of saving lives at the outset of a [relief] operation are greatly reduced when food is imported. Is there a relationship between aid and famine? Cost of US Food aid Food aid addiction? “While vast sums of international support are needed to save lives, that help carelessly applied can make things worse rather than better over the long term.” … “Any large-scale intervention by definition distorts local economics…