Food aid

Jennifer Clapp

Chapter 22 in Handbook of Globalisation and Development, 2017, pp 392-406 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Food aid has been an important feature of international development assistance since the 1950s. Since that time, both the practice and the politics of food aid have seen significant change. This chapter outlines some of the key shifts in food aid policies and politics over this period, with a special focus on those trends that have occurred in the past decade. First, there has been a shift to the provision of untied food aid by some, but not all, donors. Second, the world food crisis of 2007–08 ushered in a new economic context of hunger in which food prices have become higher and more volatile. Third, a new Food Assistance Convention was agreed in 2012 to govern food aid. Each of these trends has introduced new challenges and uncertainties for international food aid policy, which in turn have affected the political dynamics around this type of international assistance.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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