Tolerance.ca
Director / Editor: Victor Teboul, Ph.D.
Looking inside ourselves and out at the world
Independent and neutral with regard to all political and religious orientations, Tolerance.ca® aims to promote awareness of the major democratic principles on which tolerance is based.

Early Warnings Don't Prevent Food Emergencies

Humanitarian aid groups are getting better at predicting food insecurity through the use of early warnings systems. But despite months of alarm-ringing ahead of catastrophe, the response is often too little, too late. According to the United Nations, more than 260,000 people were killed as a result of the famine that struck areas of Somalia in July 2011. Valerie Guarnieri, the regional director for the United Nations World Food Program, told VOA that while the warnings were issued...


Read complete article

© Voice of America -
Subscribe to Tolerance.ca


Follow us on ...
Facebook Twitter