CK Lal has hit the nail on the head in stating that the country's farmers can't wait for complete resolution of the conflict ('Food for thought', #318). Farmers need relief now, yet some donors have them waiting for over two years without any new agricultural programs in the pipeline. The upper-income, urban-based, politically savvy have jumped the development queue yet again with democracy and governance projects and programs that will serve only themselves.

Scott E Justice,
Kathmandu