What A Meal’s Worth
November 12th, 2008 | by Andrea Perera
At home in Zimbabwe, Lillian Pedzisa holds her grandson; her sons Tendai, 19, and Dennis, 17, prepare to cook maize. Photo by: Annie Bungeroth/Oxfam.
The New York Times reports that the food crisis is worsening in Zimbabwe where in “the hardest-hit communities, people are surviving on one meal a day and trading their cows for buckets of maize, the main staple food.” Read more about the crisis.
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Andrea Perera
Andrea Perera is a writer for Oxfam America. A former newspaper reporter, she collects stories on Oxfam’s work with local partner organizations in East Asia, as well as Oxfam's campaigning efforts around climate change and oil, gas, and mining.
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