Africa-Press – Ethiopia. The U.N. World Food Program is one of the organizations that has drawn vast portions of their budgets from the U.S. government. Historically, the U.S. has been the agency’s biggest donor.
In late 2023, PBS News Hour special correspondent Willem Marx and videographer Edward Kiernan traveled across Ethiopia to understand the role that climate change and conflict were having on food supplies, witnessing first-hand the work that the World Food Program and its partners were conducting to confront such challenges. Even a relatively brief, monthslong pause in U.S. funding for food aid had a devastating impact on millions of Ethiopians.
With the current uncertainty of whether the Trump administration will offer waivers that allow emergency food aid to continue in some of the world’s most impoverished places, this documentary captures three stories from Ethiopia that highlight the heavy reliance that many communities have had on this vital global funding.
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