"Catherine Bertini" is an United States/American Civil service/public servant. She was the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program from 1992 to 2002. Currently, she is a Professor of Public Administration and international relations/International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. She is a co-chair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Global Agricultural Development Initiative and Chair of the Council’s Girls in Rural Economies Initiative. She is the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate.

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More and more people are at risk because the rains have not come. We will be coming back in the next few weeks with additional requests. We do not know how much more will be requested, it needs to be further assessed ... but I expect it will be more than 100,000 tons.

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Even with a relatively good harvest there is not enough food in the country to sustain all the people who need it.

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The drips were very crude, almost like water bottles with plastic tubing coming out. We saw other children who had marks on their faces from various stages of malnutrition. These children were in very bad shape.

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An escalation of fighting will strike a deadly blow to thousands of extremely fragile people.

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The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.

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We disagree on the capacity.

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It's very good news, because our interest -- all of our interests -- are to help people go home.

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They'll die because of the lack of food, the lack of sanitation and the lack of water and of the diseases ... as a result of the fighting in the region.

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