Food Aid and the Developing World - Hardcover

Stevens, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856646229 ISBN 13: 9780856646225

Publisher: Croom Helm, 1979

Synopsis

Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects.

Based on field research in Tunisia, Botswana, Upper Volta and Lesotho, it considers aid from the UK, EEC, USAID, the World Food Programme, Canada and France, and draws a number of policy-orientated conclusions about the impact of food aid on nutrition, consumer prices and agricultural production. In the light of the evidence from field studies it is shown that many of the claims advanced by food aid supporters and by critics cannot be sustained, and that the real impact of food aid is rather different from that assumed by the conventional wisdom on the subject.

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University of Sussex, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Croom Helm
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856646229
• ISBN 13: 9780856646225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224