{"id":1347,"date":"2010-07-07T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2010-07-07T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T13:18:20","slug":"joining-the-conversatioin-about-food-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/joining-the-conversatioin-about-food-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining the conversation about food aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week one of the items of \u201cTop Hunger News\u201d featured on Bread for the World\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bread.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/haiti-aid\/\">this video<\/a>, recently released by NPR, explaining the unintended impact that giving away free food has had on the local economy in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the aftermath of January&#8217;s devastating earthquake in Haiti, post-disaster relief is creating a new kind of problem for businesses there. The massive influx of food aid has altered the price of rice, throwing the delicate balance in Haiti&#8217;s food supply chain out of whack and threatening to collapse the country&#8217;s rice market. \u2013 Bread blog<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em>I watched the video and with its implications on my mind, throughout the week had conversations with different people and read more on the topic of food aid, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2010\/06\/30\/a_tremor_for_haitis_aid_industry?page=0,0\">this article<\/a> about outside organizations overwhelming Haiti\u2019s local aid economy.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I blogged about <em>Enough: Why the World\u2019s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. <\/em>The questions and wonderings and conversations I had surrounding food aid were piqued in part by one of the chapters, \u201cWho\u2019s Aiding Whom?\u201d focusing on Nazareth, Ethiopia in 2003. The authors write of Jerman Amente, an Ethiopian farmer and grain trader who \u201cshook with anger\u201d when he saw American food intended for starving Ethiopians pour into the country, while homegrown Ethiopian wheat, corn, beans, peas, and lentils \u201clanguished untouched\u201d (86). Kedir Geleto, the manager of a grain-trading operation in Ethiopia, says in the chapter, \u201cAmerican farmers have a market in Ethiopia, but <em>we <\/em>don\u2019t have a market in Ethiopia\u2026We don\u2019t oppose food aid. When there\u2019s a deficit in the country, of course we need it. But when there\u2019s plenty of food in the country, then it\u2019s unbelievable\u201d (87).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m relatively new to this conversation about food aid. While I certainly had a sense that not all aid is equal, and that very well-meaning people with good intentions can actually cause harm, the past few weeks have been the first time I truly gave these ideas more than a passing thought. With just a little digging I found a wealth of opinions and information that help me be better informed and more respectfully critical. Here\u2019s my question: who else is new to the conversation about food aid and what have you been learning? How about veterans? What should we know?<\/p>\n<p>Julie Reishus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week one of the items of \u201cTop Hunger News\u201d featured on Bread for the World\u2019s blog was this video, recently released by NPR, explaining the unintended impact that giving away free food has had on the local economy in Haiti. 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