FT: Food Aid to be Rationed (maybe)

Ayame

I predict many people will be scrabbling in the dirt with potatoes in the future. Pidgeon pie and baked hedgehog will also be coming back onto the menu.

Ferretlover

Soaring food prices imperil U.S. emergency aid
Government to scale back donations, reduce number of recipient nations Sat., March. 1, 2008
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government's humanitarian relief agency will significantly scale back emergency food aid to some of the world's poorest countries this year because of soaring global food prices, and the U.S. Agency for International Development is drafting plans to reduce the number of recipient nations, the amount of food provided to them, or both, officials at the agency said.
USAID officials said that a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six months has generated a $120 million budget shortfall that will force the agency to reduce emergency operations. That deficit is projected to rise to $200 million by year's end. Prices have skyrocketed as more grains go to biofuel production or are consumed by such fast-emerging markets as China and India.
Officials said they were reviewing all of the agency's emergency programs -- which target almost 40 countries and zones including Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia, Honduras and Sudan's Darfur region -- to decide how and where the cuts will be made. …
It's been decided who is going to go first
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