imagine their relief

"moreover, the crisis is deeply rooted in international and national policies, decided and inmplemented under the auspices of bretton woods institutions such as the international monetary fund (imf) and, more recently, the world trade organization(wto). these policies have undermined the spaces for states to respect, protect, and fulfill the human right to adequate food."

"since april 2008, the reaction of the international community to the food crisis has been coordinated by the high level task force on the global food crisis (hltf), which was instituted by the u n secratary-general ban ki-moon and is composed of all u n organizations dealing with food and agricultural issues, as well as the world bank, the imf, and the wto. in july 2008 the hltf released a comprehensive framework of action (caf), which is meant to set out the joint position of hltf members on proposed action to overcome the food crisis."
from the scope of the world food crisis by foodfirst information and action network.

only a bureaucrat could have thought this hopeless mismash up and ony a bureaucrat could love it..i don't know where to begin...in the three months that it took these people to draw up a response to a crisis what were people in places like ghana, haiti, and bangladesh doing? starving? most likely they were...who cares about joint positions, high level task forces, or frameworks of action in a crisis? bureaucrats and ngo's...which are basically holding pens for bureaucrats between official gigs and bureaucrat wannabes...that's who...certainly not anyone who's starving...and if the damned imf and wto are responsible for the trade liberalization policies that destroyed traditional agriculture in the unindustrialized parts of the world why the hell would you want them involved in any sort of relief effort? are they promoting a realistic plan for relief or just protecting their prerogatives? i never much liked ngo's...you have to pay attention to who's actually running them and whether what they say they're doing is what they're actually up to...somewhere along the line there has to be a way for people to help people directly without a lot of organizational nonsense getting in the way...simply reaching out to help out of a sense of common humanity rather than with an eye to a profit or some careerist plotting...what's the answer people?