The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid
Title | The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid PDF eBook |
Author | D. Shaw |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2001-05-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1403905436 |
This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System. It tells the story of the antecedents and origins of WFP and growth from modest beginnings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to become the main source of international food aid for both disaster relief and development against the background of the evolution and development of food aid. This dual role has put WFP in the front line of the United Nations attack on poverty, hunger and food insecurity.
World Food Programme News
Title | World Food Programme News PDF eBook |
Author | World Food Programme |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Food supply |
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The World's Largest Humanitarian Agency
Title | The World's Largest Humanitarian Agency PDF eBook |
Author | D. Shaw |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 455 |
Release | 2011-07-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0230316719 |
This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need.
World Food Programme ... in Review
Title | World Food Programme ... in Review PDF eBook |
Author | World Food Programme |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Economic assistance |
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Hunger and Markets
Title | Hunger and Markets PDF eBook |
Author | United Nations World Food Programme |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2012-05-04 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1136563504 |
Hunger and Markets is the third volume of the UN World Food Programme's World Hunger Series - created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and productivity by reducing both the quality and the quantity of their food intake. Hunger and Markets explores the complex and multifaceted interactions between the availability of and access to food and the operations of markets. The structure and dynamics of food markets and the threats and opportunities markets generate are crucial for the access to food for billions of people. Markets are also critical in averting or mitigating food shortages and hunger by adjusting to shocks, reducing vulnerability and coping with crises. Whether markets help or harm the hungry poor is a function of markets' institutions, infrastructure and policies. This volume analyzes the workings of markets in order to identify the sources of market failures in addressing hunger and malnutrition, and to highlight the ways in which they can be improved. The report sets out the ways in which programme design and policy formulation can build on the strengths of markets to prevent possible negative effects, and will be essential reading for all those involved in the fight against world hunger. Published with World Food Programme
World Food Programme
Title | World Food Programme PDF eBook |
Author | World Food Programme |
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World Food Programme
Title | World Food Programme PDF eBook |
Author | World Food Programme. United Nations/FAO Intergovernmental Committee |
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Pages | 66 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Food relief |
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