Food aid stands at a crossroads today. Major policy decisions will be made in the coming year as to the direction food … future role in food aid operations, they risk abdicating the historic responsibility of development and humanitarian agencies … food aid reached this crossroads, with key decisions to be made amid contradictory indicators of the health of the current …

commercial displacement under the cover of international food aid, without preventing genuine food aid from reaching people in … need. This paper presents problematic aspects of international food aid for trade and competition and an overview of the … international governance of food aid. The latest available Draft Modalities for Agriculture (December 2008) are seen as being only …

The United States is the single largest provider of international food aid, yet maintains some of the most … controversial food aid policies. Public and political critique of these policies — primarily concerning fiscal and humanitarian … largely unsuccessful. This Note examines the recent pushes for U.S. food aid reform, beginning with those of the Bush …

Public transfers of food aid are intended largely to support vulnerable populations in times of stress. We use high … frequency panel data among Ethiopian and Kenyan pastoralists to test the efficacy of food aid targeting under three different … targeting modalities, food aid's responsiveness to different types of shocks, and its relationship to private transfers. We find …

The influence of food aid and remittances on West African food import demand is evaluated using a Central Bureau of … price elastic, and that fruit and vegetables and dairy products are least responsive to price changes. Food aid did not …