1-month campaign for food to Africa to start Friday

Wednesday 14th October, 12:20 PM JST

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maglev101 at 10:36 PM JST - 14th October

the world has been feeding africa ($ aid, food, etc) for decades and will likely do so for the foreseeable future. people blame corruption, colonialism, poverty, war for it's sad state, but these same obstacles didn't keep asia & south america from developing.
stipend at 10:52 PM JST - 14th October

"Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in the United States will soon introduce the program."

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080320f1.html

This program sounds like a ringer -roll eyes!

There are numerous reputable organizations in Africa with great charters, doing great work, great track records. Why reinvent the wheel? Oh, self serving interests - I almost forgot.

Seven&i owns 7-11 and in practice franchise owners are still forced to dump food. Tidy your own house 7&i. Feed the homeless on your own streets. Find a better use than the bin for your own unsold food in this country.

This is a mockery, a cheap gumboot approach. Tofu burgers & donuts for Africa? To be made here and send over? Give me a break! And to what country? One with a pro-Japan stance on mineral exploits?
Sarge at 10:59 PM JST - 14th October

"food to Africa"

I'll bet 30 years from now Africans will still be needing food assistance.

How much aid has been thrown at that continent over the past 60 years?
stipend at 11:28 PM JST - 14th October

Some here believe we should teach Africans to grow food. Think they don't know how? Take a closer look. Think about how many countries, how many nations and tribes there are. Go there. Find a country you've never heard of and read up. Pick up the phone. Find out what that particular part of the world needs and fill the gap. It might be food, it might not. There are serious food issues and drought concerns coming about. If you care, just get informed. If you live in Japan, Japan has everything to excess. Collect it. Redirect it. Network with people already there. Go there. Come back and tell those around you what it's really like.
African at 12:11 AM JST - 15th October

Stipend-One of the few that make sense on this forum. As an African I could'nt agree less with you, first of all Africa is a continent with many countries having different challenges. We are not all starving, led dictators, infected with Aids virus just to mention a few of the labels always thrown around when ever the subject comes to Africa. Food drives in the name of Africa in the Northen hemisphere are actually insulting and degrading to Africans poor as we may be..start by respecting our ways, our culture, our history, our languages and just maybe just maybe you may understand a little bit about what ills us as Africans. Not all aid is bad but there are other ways to get involved in Africa for the right cause with the proper solutions and it usually starts by working with the patient. Africa needs sustainable and empowering solutions and less extraction of her resources. NGOs and development agencies need to stop this good samaritan posturing every time there is an out-cry in Africa. Listen to the Africans first before passing the bowl and a few coins in the process keeping the masses aid dependent for decades to come..
kavikahi at 12:15 AM JST - 15th October

Japan does not have everything "to excess". Some good points in that first post there.
humblesamurai at 12:24 AM JST - 15th October

One meal to make them taste the real food!!! then what? leave them dreaming of the same meal again. You should teach them, open some schools and institutes for them in their countries, help them to dig their oil and use their natural resources for themselves instead of being used by others, help them to grow crops in their land and teach them how to do so, supply machines, dig canals, make a contest and choose smartest people there and give them scholarships to learn how to grow like other countries, but make sure they will go back with the knoledge to their countries then they can be proud of eating from what they grow. There are many ways not only food supply.
BurakuminDes at 12:27 AM JST - 15th October

The African Warlords will get 90 percent of the money and spend it on weapons to kill other Africans. Sad, but true.
IcingDeath at 04:15 AM JST - 15th October

African and stipend do have good points. Africa is the second largest continent in the world. The horn of Africa stretches longer than the entire eastern sea board of the United States and it isn't even 10% of the continents land mass. Food isnt as highly needed in the central and southern parts of Africa as it is in the Northern and Eastern parts of Africa. What was said about the resources couldnt't bet truer.
viking252200 at 06:57 AM JST - 15th October

I'll have to go with what maglev101 said... How much more money can we keep pouring down into that bottomless pit? AS long as I can remember, we have been giving food, money, expertise supplies and so on...and have there been any changes?

They need to start helping themselves and not always relay on the western world.
stipend at 01:11 PM JST - 15th October

Apathy viking252200 achieves exactly what? More apathy. International interests count on that for business as usual. So stay in your reassuring armchair, don't get up. We have MP3s and tv games for you. Right, so we'll be raping the world over here. You won't mind will you? And using your money to do it? That's fine, here, more DVDs.

Japan is not able to feed its own people (40% efficient if you follow the flawed calorie metrics). Japan relies heavily on imports. To re-export -donate food that makes it here is nuts. Oh I see.. added value, add to the J economy. Hm..

Have not countries like Japan usually purchase internationally and ship direct to the supported area. It's better sense than this cock & bull. If it needs to be processed do it en route, do it there, in Africa.

20 yen from a ¥1200 restaurant meal is like scraping the plate and saying here kid in Africa, eat that. Oh, and don't get fat. We've limited your meal to 800k calories.
BurakuminDes at 01:27 PM JST - 15th October

Stipend, Japan will not be posting any food to Africa...as the article says, it is basically a campaign to raise money in Japan and send money to food programmes in Africa. My concern is how much of this yen will actually be put to good use rather than taken by the military?
stipend at 01:29 PM JST - 15th October

Oh I get it, Table For Two means the African kid sits next to you. When you're done gorging the imported greens and wolfing the Ozzy beef you hand him the plate and he licks it.

That's my take away of it.
stipend at 01:41 PM JST - 15th October

Stipend, Japan will not be posting any food to Africa...as the article says, it is basically a campaign to raise money in Japan and send money to food programmes in Africa.

Ah, you are right. My bad.
techall at 01:41 PM JST - 15th October

They should send most of these people in Africa luggage. You are standing on sand, in 100 years it will still be sand.......Move!