News and Links

• International food aid locally purchased in the new Farm Bill. Pros and cons
• Mozambique, an example of how food aid should be done
  
• In Lesotho, a landlock country with very low food production, the food crisis is making things even worse
• From IFPRI Helping Women Respond to the Global Food Crisis and Physical and Virtual Global Food Reserves to Protect the Poor and Prevent Market Failure
• An unpopular French president criticizes a much needed yet unpopular reform of the EU's farm sector