Reforming Food Aid: Time to Grasp the Nettle?
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The international arrangements to underpin food security are in disarray. This matters because tackling hunger is central to the achievement of the international development targets for reducing poverty: the poorest 1.5 billion people in the world, living on less than $US 1 per day, typically spend 80% of their income on food (ODI Briefing Paper 1997(1)). Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right, most recently confirmed in the summer of 1999 by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ODI Briefing Paper 1999(3)). In this Briefing Paper, we concentrate on food aid. The disarray arises from: • loss of confidence in all forms of food aid except for emergency relief; • internationally negotiated commitments which are not adapted to the many ways other than food aid in which donors can help overcome hunger; • institutional arrangements which exacerbate the problem, notably regarding the role of the World Food Programme (WFP), the US and the EU; • widespread recognition of the need to change, but difficulty in reaching consensus on how. From this perspective, the food aid case is interesting not just because of the importance of hunger, but also as a case study in the pitfalls of reshaping global governance (ODI Briefing Paper 1999(2)).
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تاریخ انتشار 2000