Background

Here are some of the articles, links and books that have informed the making of ‘The Hunger Season’. Feel free to peruse and if you have any comments or suggestions of other useful and relevant materials, please post comments on the Comments page

• WFP summary on Swaziland
• About FAO in Swaziland
• Home page to the Government of Swaziland

News

• 28th Dec 2008 - Year of the hungry: 1 billion afflicted An investigation by The Independent on Sunday
• 16 December 2008 - WFP Calls for rescue package for the world's hungry
• 16 December 2008 - Sign the ONE petition

Interesting & relevant articles

• A list of all commitments and pledges towards the 2007 drought in Swaziland
• SWAZILAND : Stoicism in the face of the worst ever food crisis April 18th 2008
• ASSISTANCE : Various challenges impede the impact and effectiveness of US Food Aid April 2nd 2007
• One in Three Swazis in need of Food Aid May 23rd 2007
• How America is betraying the hungry children of Africa May 27th 2007
• Swaziland Drought Flash Appeal 2007 July 24th 2007
• Breaking the cycle of hunger: An interview with Josette Sheeran of WFP September 14th 2007
• US Food Aid is ‘wrecking’ Africa, claims charity August 17th 2007
• SWAZILAND Coping strategies wear thin in ongoing food crisis October 16th 2007
• The Worlds growing food-price crisis February 27th 2008
• The Silent Tsunami – The Economist April 17th 2008
• How to Feed the World – Newsweek May 19th 2008
• GLOBAL : NGO’s call for more funds, investment in agriculture July 2nd 2008
• GLOBAL: US Farm Bill “Too little, too late” for developing world July 1st 2008
• SWAZILAND: A better maize crop but not enough July 8th 2008
• Humanitarians cool on G8 summit response to food crisis July 11th 2008

Useful websites

• http://www.freerice.com/index.php
  For each word you define correctly, 20g of rice is donated to feed hungry people around the world through the WFP
• http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?OpenForm
  The world’s leading on-line gateway to information on humanitarian emergencies and disasters administered by the UN office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affiars.
• http://www.iatp.org/
  The Institute for Agriculture Trade Policy who work locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
• http://www.agobservatory.org/
  A monitor for world and US agriculture from the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy
• http://www.fao.org/
  The website of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
• http://www.irinnews.org/
  An excellent website for news and analysis updates from the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• http://www.wfp.org/english/
  The website for the UN World Food Programme

Interesting books

• "The Trouble with Africa" by R Calderisi
• "Does Foreign Aid Really Work?" by Roger Riddell
• "The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey Sachs
• "The Bottom Billion" by Paul Collier