This paper explores the empirical relationship between U.S. food aid flows per capita and nonconcessional food availability per capita in PL 480 recipient economies. The evidence suggests PL 480, while modestly progressive in its distribution, is if anything procyclical in recipient economies....

Discussions on food aid and dependency often draw on what appears to be a broad body of evidence, but closer inspection reveals that much of this does not in fact demonstrate a causal link between the two. This desk review has three objectives: (i) to identify the pathways through which negative...

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...

The basic logic of food aid for food security is simple. Food aid should flow in response to food availability shortfalls that might cause undernutrition. This paper explores the empirical relationship between food aid flows per capita from the United States' PL480 programs and nonconcessional...

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...