Food aid has become one of the most controversial and most emotional subjects within the total aid picture, and indeed within the total picture of relations between richer and poorer countries. The contributions in this issue of the Bulletin testify to the wide range of attitudes and opinions, running the gamut from the condemnation of food aid by the British Foreign Secretary in a recent speech to wholehearted support in the Brandt Report. These statements and others by the new Executive Director of the World Food Programme and the Lappé and Collins team are reproduced in this Bulletin.