This chapter discusses both food security and food assistance programs. The latter are a response to threats to the former, so the topics are best treated jointly. First I review the concept of food security, then presents a basic analytical model of food security, approached as a subtopic of...

This study is an evaluation of the impact of a food for education program implemented in primary schools (grades 1-6) in six Cambodian provinces between 1999 and 2003. We find that school enrolment increased to varying degrees in relation to different designs of the intervention. We also...

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...