Food Aid

Jack Parkinson

Chapter 7 in Aid and Influence, 1981, pp 82-101 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Before the partition of India the area now included in Bangladesh was largely self-sufficient in food, with the exception of major harvest failures such as that of 1943. Over the years the situation has changed drastically. In the 1950s the population growth progressively outran that of rice production and in most years half a million tons or more of grain had to be imported to ward off starvation. In the 1960s imports were often in the neighbourhood of one million tons and in the worst years of the 1970s over two million tons were needed. At times, a fifth or more of the population was dependent on imported supplies. The need for food exercised a stranglehold on the balance of payments; in the years 1973–6, 30 per cent to 40 per cent of imports consisted of food and during this period about one-third of total aid was in the form of food supplies.

Keywords: Government Employee; Food Policy; Domestic Output; Food Subsidy; Marketable Surplus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05472-5_7

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