This is so simple but so powerful its sad its taken so long to happen and is the exception rather than the practice.
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For years we have known and seen in reports and comments lately that the food aid is as much a mechanism for selling excess crops produced with farming subsidies and transporting it halfway around the world as feeding starving people.
In Timor-Leste the World Food Programme has worked with coffe exporter and government to modify a coffee factory into a processing facility producing corn soya blend (CSB) for the feeding of undernourished mothers and children.
The article goes through the difficulties such as introducing a quality structure, sourcing equipment, supporting farmers. However, the plant now produced 200 tons a year which meets a substantial part of the needs.
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