Admire this picture. Its been taken in his name. On food aid programmes Food aid means unequal exchange. It means sniffing around for new markets. Rich countries use food as a weapon to develop export markets in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Governments do it to build cash-rich markets for their businessmen.
From the 1950s to about 1980, the US used food aid to dump surplus grain on poor nations. These countries then had to switch to buying food and resources like seeds or farm machinery in hard currency, dollars. Multinationals took over. On famines Planned scarcity. In Poverty and Hunger , Amartya Sen writes wherever the market reaches, its bad news for anyone who owns few resources, like landless labourers, pastoralists.