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The World Food Program says that rising costs of food aid and transportation are forcing it to contemplate rationing strategies. From the Financial Times:

The UN's agency responsible for relieving hunger is drawing up plans to ration food aid in response to the spiralling cost of agricultural commodities.The World Food Programme is holding crisis talks to decide what aid to halt if new donations do not arrive in the short term. Josette Sheeran, WFP executive director, told the Financial Times that the agency would look at "cutting the food rations or even the number or people reached" if donors did not provide more money. "Our ability to reach people is going down just as the needs go up," she said.

Posted by Mark Leon Goldberg at 7:59 AM