Against The Grain: The dilemma of project food aid

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Author(s)
Jackson, Tony
Eade, Deborah
Publication date
1982-01-01
Subject
Humanitarian
Aid
Food and livelihoods
Keywords
Aid effectiveness
Food security
Refugees and IDPs
Humanitarian practice
Country
Guatemala
Uganda
Bangladesh
Haiti

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Document type
Book
Description

For years food has been gien to Third World countries to help in their development. But it has made little impact. Too often the food aid tail wags the development dog. Yet the effectiveness of food aid as a tool for development has gone virtually unchallenged.
Table of contents
Foreword - by Director General of Oxfam; Preface; 1. Project Food Aid: An Irreplaceable Tool for Development?; 2. Food aid for disaster relief and refugees; 3. Food-for-work; 4. Food aid and mother-child health programmes; 5. School and other institutional feeding; 6. The cost of project food aid; 7. The management of food aid; 8. Project food aid as competition with local food production; 9. Conclusions
Pages
144
ISBN
978-0-85598-063-4
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121195
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/against-the-grain-the-dilemma-of-prroject-food-aid-121195
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