Quotation for Today, Monday 13 July
2009 July 13
“It’s a shift from food aid – which is like providing medication after the child is ill – to providing assistance to help the countries themselves to put in place the right policies to be able to produce food by themselves,”
Kanayo Nwanze, head of UN International Fund for Agricultural Development, commenting on an announcement for more aid to poor countries from G8 Summit.
The headline number is impressive, but Adam suspects there is little ‘new’ money, but a realignment of existing promises yet to be delivered on.
