When you hand out “free” food in a stricken area, you put the local food producers out of business.
The best solution, of course, is buy the food from the local producers before shipping in more (if necessary). Or to provide the locals with the means of obtaining their own food.
But that doesn’t actually get them the power they’re looking for...
Recently UNICEF has been running very long commercials asking for donations to help starving children. Quite apart from the arguments made in this article, an agency connected to the UN is about the last one I would trust.
yup.. you nailed it.
if you want to provide ‘aid’ in a long term sense, supporting the local ability to provide that aid is key.
of course, this is well known... and avoided as these situations of misery are used to gain money and power by ‘providing the solution’... but *never* solving it