Abstract
While I was conducting a research project on property rights in southern Ethiopia in 1994, I watched truck after truck roll into the community to distribute food aid. I asked a local farmer if the harvest had been bad. He assured me of his abundant harvest of tomatoes and onions—cash crops that he normally couldn't plant because he had to focus on feeding his family. However, he explained, with all the food aid they were now getting, he did not have to worry about feeding his family, so he could use his land to make some extra cash—and his family would eat wheat from America.
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2009
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2009 The Christian Century. This book review first appeared in The Christian Century 126:26 (2009), 21-23.
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Recommended Citation
Joireman, Sandra F. "Still Hungry." Reviews of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working by Dambisa Moyo and How There Is a Better Way for Africa and Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman. The Christian Century 126, no. 26 (2009): 21-23.