Redefining the role of food aid

Maria Soledad Bos, Marc J. Cohen and John Hoddinott

No 4, FCND briefs from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: "The principal objective of food aid, besides responding to needs created by conflict, and other disasters, should be to provide an insurance function for those events for which existing insurance mechanisms function poorly" "From Text

Keywords: Hunger Prevention; Poverty alleviation; Insurance; Food supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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