International aid agency Oxfam today (22 October 2009) called for a
radical shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in
Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk
reaction” to food crises which is dominated by sending food aid. While
the agency recognised that sending food aid does save lives, the
dominance of this approach fails to offer long-term solutions which
would break these cyclical and chronic crises.
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