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Shipping costs
Christian Century, Nov 1, 2005
SHIPPING COSTS: You would think a good strategy for getting food to Africans dying of starvation would be to purchase the food from other Africans. It would lower shipping costs, get the food to the people who need it quickly and help African farmers. But that approach, which was supported by the Bush administration, violates the political axiom that "American generosity must be good not just for the world's hungry but also for American agriculture" (New York Times, October 12).
Actually this arrangement, protected by American law, does not even help American farmers as much as it benefits agribusiness and the shipping industry. It also benefits some nonprofit aid organizations, like Catholic Rehef Services and CARE, which have become grain traders themselves, selling donated food in poor countries in order to generate revenues for their antipoverty programs. That's why the Coalition for Food Aid has opposed the administration's plan to purchase food in Africa. CARE has had a change of heart: it now supports the proposal.
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