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2007-01-30 | permalink
New approach needed for food aid
Rich countries should give more cash and less food if they really want to feed hungry people in the developing world, a University of Waterloo professor says. [...] "If you want to feed more of the 850 million people who go hungry every day reforming food aid might be a step in the right direction," Clapp said. And while many countries, such as Canada, the European Union and Australia have moved toward a cash-based system, the biggest food-aid donor in the world -- the United States -- has not changed.
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2007-01-30 | permalink
New approach needed for food aid
Rich countries should give more cash and less food if they really want to feed hungry people in the developing world, a University of Waterloo professor says. [...] "If you want to feed more of the 850 million people who go hungry every day reforming food aid might be a step in the right direction," Clapp said. And while many countries, such as Canada, the European Union and Australia have moved toward a cash-based system, the biggest food-aid donor in the world -- the United States -- has not changed.
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