Among the millions of Americans who suffer from food insecurity in the United States, only a fraction utilizes the … nation’s 60,000 food pantries. Stigma is commonly cited as a barrier to use. Stigma can arise from any of several sources … from an online survey that asks SNAP-eligible individuals to evaluate food items under different treatments. In two …

This paper considers the economic effects of regulatory barriers on international food trade and the implications of …

This paper can be summarized as follows. Food aid has multiple objectives, modalities and effects and there has been … significant movement over time in each of these areas. Concerns about the use of food aid as an export support policy are founded … in both the history of bilateral food aid, in the political economy of food aid support in major donor countries, and in …

Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has … prompted an evolving conceptualization of food security and of mechanisms to attain and maintain food security. This chapter … discusses both food security and food assistance programs designed to respond to the threat of food insecurity. …

This paper surveys the existing empirical evidence on the unintended consequences of food aid. Micro-level evidence is … presented on the impacts of food aid deliveries on household labour supply, production incentives, consumption patterns and … natural resource use. At the meso-level, evidence on the impact of food aid on market development, market prices, informal …

This paper reviews the role of food aid in response to humanitarian emergencies. It outlines a set of basic principles … for effective food aid interventions, and analyses a number of case studies in humanitarian response. The paper … response is too heavily dominated by food aid, especially aid sourced in donor countries, to the neglect of more effective and …

This paper outlines a coherent strategy for the use of food aid in addressing food insecurity. It surveys recent … literature on poverty traps, the rights-based approach to food security and discusses where food aid fits into an integrated … analysis of poverty and food security. The paper distinguishes between transitory and chronic poverty and between ‘safety nets …