the politics of an empty stomach

Not to steal any of Zambia's New York Times thunder, but this excellent recent article about hunger and poverty and health and food aid politics and cash-strapped WFP programmes could just as easily have been written about Mozambique, Zambia's southern African neighbor.

Even as Africa Hungers, Policy Slows Delivery of U.S. Food Aid.
Read it and weep.

(If you object to signing up for a free NYT subscription, which you may have to do to read the above linked article, you can at least check out the photos associated with the article by going to the NYT World page and looking for the "Hunger in Zambia" slide show.)