Reform in the International Food Aid Regime: The Role of Consensual Knowledge

Raymond F Hopkins

International Organization, 1992, vol. 46, issue 1, pages 225-64

Abstract: The principles adopted by the food aid regime in the 1950s have changed substantially, largely because of the efforts of an international epistemic community of development specialists, agricultural economists, and food aid administrators. Originally, food aid was provided from the donors' surplus stocks and given under short-term commitments to meet the recipients' emergency needs and the donors' political as well as humanitarian goals. Critics charged, however, that food aid often had the unintended effects of reducing local food production and exacerbating hunger. The epistemic community not only devised more efficient methods for supplying food aid and avoiding these problems, but also pushed for the use of food aid in development-oriented projects targeted for long-term alleviation of hunger. The community's ideas have increasingly received support from international organizations and from donor and recipient governments and have led to an incremental reform of regime principles. Copyright 1992 by MIT Press.

Date: 1992
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