Kenyan Farmers' Fate Caught Up in U.S. Aid Rules That Benefit Agribusiness

As the United States Congress debates an omnibus farm bill, it is considering a small change that advocates say could make a big difference to the world's hungriest people: allowing the federal government to buy some food in Africa to feed the famished, rather than shipping it all overseas from America.....

You can read the article at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E7DC1031F932A05754C0A9619C8B63

(I meant to post this after last week's class. It's an article I remembered having read over the summer.)

CARE Turns Down U.S. Food Aid

This is the article on monetization I mentioned in class today:

CARE Turns Down U.S. Food Aid - TIME: "A major international charity has decided to turn down millions of dollars worth of grain from the U.S. government to feed the world's hungry because it believes America's method of delivering vital food supplies does more harm than good [...]

"CARE has decided to phase out all such monetized food aid by 2009, turning its back on $46 million a year in U.S. federal funding. The charity said selling food to fund its programs is inefficient and often delivers life-sustaining grain not to the hungry but to those who can afford it. It says it made the decision to abandon the controversial source of funding in 2005, but chose to make the decision public in an article in the International Herald Tribute on Wednesday in order to make a stand as Congress debates an overhaul of its food aid program in a new farm bill this summer...."

Link to Child Health Care: A Learning Programme for Professionals

Here's a link to a useful resource that speaks to a number of child health issues. For the purposes of Tuesday's (9/11/07) presentation on Growth Monitoring Promotion and Food Supplementation we recommend chapters 3 and 4. This manual is available for download in its entirety from http://www.childhealthcare.co.za/. Follow the link that says, "Read the Book", specific chapters can be downloaded individually, or you can scroll to the bottom of the page to download the entire book.

Under-nutrition levels in India among the highest

This article has details on the CARE campaign for better nutrition in India:

Citizen News Service: Under-nutrition levels in India among the highest: "...Around 40% children are low birth weight and around 47% children are malnourished. It is understood that 60% of Infant & child deaths could be prevented only if we are able to check malnutrition among children [...]"