Article on page 24 SMH, May 3rd 2008

I read with interest about food prices and huge increases in costs for many people in countries around the world. A feature article looking at Africa detailed the plight of one family in Noakchott, Mauritania.

In the area a staple diet of sorghum seed is eaten by the population, due to dry conditions this grain is in short supply and prices are so high people are going hungry!

Page 3 of the same edition of the SMH shows a large colour photo of a “mountain” of sorghum grain, a result of a “Bumper “harvest in NSW in 2008. This grain is destined for stock feed but due to an expected bumper harvest of wheat, limits on dry storage present a problem.

Can we as a solution pay to have some of the sorghum from NSW sent to Mauritania to help?