Of course you are right…! That is part of what we are trying to do: show that investing in agriculture before a drought or flood turns into a famine, is much wiser and worthwhile “investing” (donors, governments, policy makers,) than dealing with the human (and $) cost of an aid relief operation.

Right now, the humanitarian community can’t but deal with a famine relief operation. But it needn’t have come this far…

Peter.

But also am wondering if there is a way donors can as well consider giving more tools to these people instead of investing in food donation…we have a saying which means that teaching some one to fish is better than just giving fish to eat because skills and tools are longer term.