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.

This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter. This book will prove vital to students of development economics and development studies and those working in the field.

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The U.S. has played a leading role in global efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition and to enhance world food security through internat. food aid activities. The development and implementation of a U.S. global food security initiative, and commitments made by global leaders to support agr. develop., have increased Congress¿s focus on U.S. internat. food aid programs. Contents of this report: (1) Program Descriptions: Food for Peace Act; Sect. 416(b); Food for Progress; McGovern-Dole Internat. Food for Educ. and Child Nutrition Program; Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust; (2) Funding of Food Aid; (3) Issues for Congress: Aid Effectiveness; Demand-Driven Aid Strategies; Cash vs. Commodities: Local or Regional Procurement. Illus.

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.