I try and visit this site often. Even if you know a lot of big words, it will match your aptitude and things get tough. It’s good for a warm up early in the day, and it’s cool to contribute to something good.

An unfortunate side effect of programs like this is that they flood the local market with external sources of rice. So, while it feeds hungry people in the short term, it lowers local rice prices making it hard for local farmers to produce rice for their own local areas and income for themselves in the long term. Double whammy.

Riceman, your concerns are valid. However, if you go to the UN World Food Programme website, they say that they purchase rice from indigenous farmers.
Also, the WFP’s primary purpose is to provide emergency food aid, especially to refugees and other temporarily stricken people. It is purely short-term, and does not create ongoing unfavourable market conditions.

Pasha/Riceman:

First, it would be good to explain the apparent contridiction.
Now that Free Rice has become “an urban legend” in the words of one Goggle entry, it would be a great service to clarify,clarify,clarify. Often.
Free Rice Players need a little more information before they can really spread the word(s).

Second, what exactly is the problem with emergency food aid? Should you ever find yourself in the midst of a famine induced by a short term emergency,you’ll find that chanting “give a man a fish and…BUT teaching a man to fish…does little to dull hunger pangs.Trust me on this.
Finally, thanks for an amusing game. It’s a gift.
CK

In the free rice game it would add to the learning process if with every correct answer one or two sentences are given where the word had been used. This game is a great idea.