Media Coverage, in chronological order

2009

• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: SYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution (November 2009)
• ABC News: "U.S. Food Aid Contributing to Africa's Hunger?" (October 2009)
• Cardus: "Overseas Development Assistance: reinforcing success" (October 2009)
• Reuters: "Obama global hunger plan revives food aid fight" (October 2009)
• Financial Times: "The search for a fresh recipe" (October 2009)
• Modern Ghana: "G8 call for tighter investment controls in Africa" (September 2009)
• Cornell Chronicle Online: "Fertilizers may not help crops of poorest African farmers" (September 2009)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: "We need another Green Revolution" (September 2009)
• Cornell Chronicle Online: "$3.2 million NSF grant trains grad students to tackle food systems and poverty problems" (August 2009)
• Life Week: "Group of eight summit drew to an end" (July 2009)
• Reuters: "Analysis: G8 promise a $20 bln chance to beat odds on hunger" (July 2009)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: "G8's historic shift needs applause" (July 2009)
• The Chicago Council on Global Affairs: "Experts Commentary on L'Aquila Food Security Initiative G-8 Announcement: Chris Barrett , Stephen B. & Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management, International Professor of Agriculture, Cornell University" (July 2009)
• The Chicago Council on Global Affairs: "Global Food for Thought: Special G-8 Summit Edition" (July 2009)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: "Improved farming rather than more food aid?" (July 2009)
• Communications of the ACM, The World's Leading Source for Advanced Computing: "Cornell Economist Says Disaster Relief Workers Need AI Tools" (June 2009)
• WXXI (Rochester affiliate of National Public Radio): "Why Is Global Poverty So Intractable?" (June 2009)
• Cornell Chronicle Online: "Poverty Researchers Kick Off Three-Year Collaboration" (May 2009)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: "G8 call for tighter investment controls in Africa" (April 2009)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: "Will scaling up pre-positioned food aid save time and money? " (March 2009)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: "Winds of Change in US Food Aid Policy?" (March 2009)
• Global Health Magazine: "Is the U.S. Using Money Wisely?" (February 2009)
• Business Daily Africa: "Insurance planned to cover farmers from bad weather" (January 2009)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: " Calls to refrom Food Aid Convention " (January 2009)

2008

• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: " Non-traditional donors come to the WFP table" (December 2008)
• Cornell Chronicle Online, "Cornell global expert offers clues to why grinding poverty in Africa persists - and keeps rising" (November 2008)
• Christianity Today Cover Story, "Hunger Isn't History" (November 2008)
• TheMessenger (Surry, NC) op-ed, "A Reason a Day for No Gas Tax Holiday" (May 2008)
• The Standard (Nairobi, Kenya): "Insurance Cover Pledge for Pastoralist Groups " (May 2008)
• Fund Strategy Magazine: "Good Threshing" (Cover Story May 2008)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: "Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours" (May 2008)
• Baltimore Sun OpEd: "It's time to stop a tragic waste" (May 2008)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis: "Canada to provide cash, not commodities in switch of food aid policy" (May 2008)
• Seattle NPR KUOW "Food Prices, Food Banks, and Food Aid" (April 2008)
• Philadelphia NPR Radio Times: Interview (April 2008)
• SAGA Audio Series Interview: Fractal Poverty Traps (April 2008)
• SAGA Audio Series Interview: Fractal Poverty Traps: Madagascar (April 2008)
• SAGA Audio Series Interview: Pastoralists in Africa (April 2008)
• Christian Science Monitor "How to ease the squeeze on food access" (April 2008)
• The Economist "Letters to the Editor: Feeding Themselves" (April 2008)
• The Cornell Chronicle "Persistent Poverty is focus of latest Institute for the Social Sciences Project" (April 2008)
• IPS "DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate" (April 2008)
• Economist.com "Food for Thought" (March 2008)
• USA Today "World Food Program calls for Donations" (March 2008)
• IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis "USAID reviewing food aid as costs soar" (March 2008)
• The Wall Street Journal "A Run on Banks: Food Charities Feel the Pinch" (March 2008)
• Chicago Tribune " Higher grain prices putting squeeze on world food aid" (March 2008)
• Ithaca Journal "A Step in the Wrong Direction for Food Aid"/(.pdf) (February 2008)
• The Politico, "Bush in food aid fight with Congress" (February 2008)
• (IRIN) "ETHIOPIA: Drought insurance extended to 6.7 million people" (December 2007)

2007

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette op-ed, "Vetoing the Farm Bill would give President Bush the perfect opportunity to repair our corrupt, inefficient system for providing food aid to the world, says author" (December 2007)
• Manitoba Cooperator, "Make that cash, not grain." (December 2007)
• (IRIN) "ETHIOPIA: Drought insurance extended to 6.7 million people" (December 2007)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution (November 23, 2007): http://www.ajc.com/search/content/news/stories/2007/11/23/foodaid1123.html
• Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Science Alumni Magazine (Fall 2007): "Can Financial Markets Help End Global Poverty?"
• UN IRIN service (November 20, 2007): http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74257
• Baltimore Sun, Letter to the Editor, "Emergency Food Aid Should be a Priority" (November 16, 2007): http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/letters/bal-ed.le.16nnov16,0,4747586.story
• NPR All Things Considered (November 06, 2007):
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16053196
• Des Moines Register article (October 16, 2007):
  http://www.truthabouttrade.org/article.asp?id=8347
• Bloomberg (September 25, 2007):
  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aavGQwwy7MtM
• Los Angeles Times (August 24, 2007 ):
  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-stein24aug24,0,3
  435843.column?coll=la-sunday-commentary
• New York Times (August 16, 2007):
  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/world/africa/16food.html?pagewanted=print
• Time (August 15, 2007): http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1653360,00.html
• Christian Science Monitor (July 24, 2007):
  http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0724/p01s01-wogi.htm
• Chicago Tribune (May 28, 2007) :
  http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/948302/us_food_aid_reform_plan_has_stout
  _foes/index.html
• Guardian, UK (May 27, 2007):
  http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/food/2007/05/in_1987_i_was_working.html
• International Herald Tribune (April 22, 2007):
  http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/news/food.php

  2006

• Asia Times (September 27, 2006): http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HI27Dg01.html
• Where Most Needed (July 26, 2006):
  http://www.wheremostneeded.org/2006/07/oxfam_report_de.html
• Christianity Today (June 01, 2006): http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/june/19.48.html
• Bloomberg (January 25, 2006):
  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aLc6v1V.1TFQ&refer=us

  2005

• Silent Killer film (KCTS Television) 2005: http://www.silentkillerfilm.org/
• LA Times OpEd Piece (Oct 27, 2005)
• International Herald Tribune (October 13, 2005):
  http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/12/news/aid.php
• New York Times (October 12, 2005):
  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/12/international/africa/12memo.html?_r=1&oref
  =slogin
• NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (August 04, 2005):
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/july-dec05/niger_8-04.html
• MediaGloba (April 25, 2005):
  http://mediaglobal.org/index.php/2007/04/25/us-to-change -policy-on-purchase-
  of-food-aid/
• Market-to-Market (Iowa Public Television) (April 08, 2005):
  http://www.iptv.org/mtom/feature.cfm?Fid=289

  2004

• Cornell Chronicle (April 14, 2004):
  http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April06/Barrett.FOCUS.fac.html