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...followed such basic rules, to good effect. The world has grown richer and food aid has declined, from 20% of all official development assistance in the 1960s to less than 5% in 2005, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). But we're still feeding Africa. East Africa accounts for 4% of the world's population but 20% of food aid, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization; for all Africa, the figures...
...arguments against long-term handouts of food - dependency, corruption, the disincentive effect, a tendency for outside shocks to be exaggerated in a country with little capacity to plan for them - are well known. Africa provides arresting proof of their validity. Today the continent can no longer feed itself, and its share of world agricultural trade is much less than it was two generations ago. Globalization of agriculture - a process as old as sailing ships - means products that originated in Africa are now grown elsewhere. Coffee came from Ethiopia; Vietnam now grows more than all Africa. Palm oil was originally exported...
...What Africa needs is sustained development programs, homegrown where possible, assisted by the outside world when that makes sense. It needs investment in human capital, in women's health and education, in infrastructure (the imperial powers were not wrong about that), in trading regimes that enable African nations to export their produce without protectionist barriers. Get those fundamentals right and there is no reason why Africa should not feed itself again...
...Warren had an epiphany in 2003. His wife Kay had dedicated herself to the fight against HIV/AIDS, a brave move in a community where it was still often stigmatized. In Africa with her nine months later, he says, he heard a message from above. "God said, 'You don't care squat about the sick and the poor. And you need to change; you need to repent.'" He became fond of repeating that the Bible has 2,000 verses dedicated to the poor and that the Gospel of Matthew contains not only the Great Commission, in which Christ bids his disciples...
...Saddleback member, was in a PEACE group directed to a Presbyterian church in the village of Remera, where elders spoke of needing milk for children. The team went back to the U.S., and Bornzin admits that "the idea festered" for two years, until a team member returned to Africa and e-mailed that "they really need [a] livestock program." So Bornzin raised $14,000 from 45 Saddleback members and sent it to Remera with a detailed plan for stocking the area's neediest farmers and for the equitable distribution of the resulting calves. The effort appears to be working...