This study investigates the allocation of dietary energy, iron, vitamin A and zinc within global food aid. The response of US and non-US donors to nutritional needs and donor interests is estimated with a dynamic correlated random effects Tobit model. Aid flows of the period 1993-2007 are...

Anniversaries are a time for celebration and reflection. July 10 marks the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower's signing of U.S. Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, commonly known as PL480. Global food aid programs, the largest of which is PL480,...

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...