The irony is that donors then respond with very expensive emergency food aid, which typically proves to be too little and too late. A shipment of an equivalent dollar amount of fertilizer and improved seeds from, say, the United States to Africa would yield perhaps five times more food.
讽刺的是，捐助国反过来施以代价高昂的紧急食品援助，而这些援助又常常太少或太迟。如果将美国运到非洲的食品援助换成等价的肥料和改良种子，收成会比援助多五倍。但是捐助国迄今还没有吸取到这个浅显的教训。