Does "food for peace" assistance damage the Bolivian economy?

At the Expense of the Country: Multi-level War Economy in Afghanistan and the Implication for Peace

WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/144 Aid to Africa: The changing context

To continue its economic growth and create new and better livelihoods, Africa must transform the productive side of its economy. Ongoing globalization—in trade, finance, and technology—opens up new possibilities for structural transformation, but also new risks as Africa’s integration with the global economy evolves. Climate change is impacting productive sectors and the livelihoods linked to t...

Grasping the scientific evidence: The contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace

This article draws on new data and analyses to investigate whether the contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace. A series of studies have shown that contractualist economy accounts for the democratic peace, but defenders of the democratic peace claim that these studies contain measurement errors, that democracy correlates with peace at least in interaction with contractualist econom...

بررسی ابعاد حق بر غذا و امنیت غذایی در اسناد بین‌المللی

The right to food and freedom from hunger is a part of fundamental human rights and it shall not be suspended under no circumstances even in the hostilities. Since any infringement of the right to food can lead to death from starvation. Different approaches to solve the problem of malnutrition in times of war and peace, including the right to food and food security have been taken. At the momen...

Food commodity pipeline management in transitional settings: challenges and lessons learned from the first USAID food development program in South Sudan

Despite decades of support for international food assistance programs by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Food for Peace, relatively little is known about the commodity pipeline and management issues these programs face in post-conflict and politically volatile settings. Based on an audit of the program's commodity tracking system and interviews with 13 key progra...