This article examines the implications of the linkage between two international regimes for food security. The WTO food trade regime influences Members` trade policies affecting food-related entitlements and may thus have an impact on food security, while the changing trade environment has...

Food production is not keeping pace with Africa's rapidly growing needs. Aid programs in the 1970s and 1980s were considered a temporary solution to the most appalling famines, but Africa's food shortage appears to be worsening. This paper discusses the reasons for this situation and ways to...

The analytical review of food aid, food production and food markets in Lesotho was undertaken on the request of the WFP Country Office in Lesotho in response to a long running debate that food aid was disrupting markets and creating disincentives to production, often with specific reference made...

The analytical review of food aid, food production and food markets in Swaziland was undertaken on the initiative of WFP Country Office to clarify issues on a long running debate in the country that food aid was disrupting markets and creating disincentives to production. In this context, the...

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...