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The Global Food Crisis [Rush
Transcript; Federal News Service]
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Speakers:
Tom Arnold
Charles F. MacCormack
Presider: David J. Rothkopf
May 29, 2008
Council on Foreign Relations
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MR. ARNOLD:
But if I can just make one more point on the
food aid question. I think we also need to
make a distinction between emergency, sort
of famine-oriented food aid and long-term
food aid. And certainly, on the latter, the
increased costs of production and
transportation make it even less viable. But
we're going to see more famine, for the
reasons that we have discussed. And again,
as we're speaking, North Korea is on the
cusp of a major food crisis. The
Ogaden in Ethiopia is into a major
food crisis. There is not locally available
food or even regionally available food, and
these people will die unless food aid is
made available. So that's a very different
reality in the food-aid equation than the
piece that we were just talking about.
And the problem is going to be that all the
funds that are currently available for food
aid are going to be needed and then some
just to deal with these famine situations.
So I do think this earlier argument about
cash versus food unfortunately is actually
not going to be relevant in the next five
years.
Full transcript
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