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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Food Aid"”.
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Human Rights and the Strategic Use of US Foreign Food Aid
… for human rights affect the disbursement of food aid by US foreign policymakers? Scholars analyzing foreign aid generally look at only total economic aid, military aid or a combination of both. However, for a more nuanced understanding of human rights as a determinant of foreign aid, the …
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Does U.S. food aid have disincentive effects on local food production?
Food aid is an important tool to fight poverty and avert humanitarian crises in developing countries. Although multiple studies on U.S. food aid have been carried out in the past few decades, the answer to the question— what is the impact of food aid on agricultural production— remains unclear. …
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The Johnson Treatment: Cold War Food Aid and the Politics of Gratitude
… is a good and deserving friend. Let it never be said that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap that we turned in indifference from her bitter need." The sweeping presidential rhetoric did not match the record. While Johnson promised India vital U.S. food aid to combat a worsening …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… dissertation tracks the remarkable growth of food assistance in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become …
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Compare Nutritionally Related Health Outcomes Between Least Developed Countries Receiving Minimal Versus Substantial Food Aid from the United States
This study examines how food aid from the United States affects the nutritional health of the populations in least developed countries (LDCs). The average prevalences of nutritionally related health parameters in children under five living in LDCs receiving high amounts of food aid per capita from …
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Food security in less developed countries: assessing the effects of food aid in rural Kenya as a food supply shock on consumption and nutrition
Food Security can be defined in terms of establishing national or regional minimum nutritional standards, or in terms of securing national or regional self-sufficiency production levels. In this research, food security is viewed from a nutritional-economic standpoint. The prevalence of severe …
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Food aid and economic development: impact of food for work on labor allocation, production and consumption behavior of small family-farms in a semi-arid area of Kenya
Food-for-Work (FFW) was conceived as both a short-run assistance program for meeting basic food needs of low income households, and as a long-run developmental tool for building infrastructure and for providing income to ease capital constraints on farm production. However, it was feared that FFW …
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Experimentation with procurement to design and model supply chains in developing economies
… with procurement in the context of food aid supply chains. In local and regional procurement, in which food is bought in a developing economy, and transoceanic procurement, in which food is bought in a developed economy and shipped to a developing economy, supply chain design is …
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O impacto da política de ajuda alimentar internacional dos Estados Unidos na cooperação multilateral do Programa Mundial de Alimentos
The World Food Programme (WFP) was created especially for two main reasons: the growing involvement of state actors in the international food aid regime; and the inability of USA to continue shouldering alone, the international food aid (main tool to combat the hunger in the world). The …
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Household Food Security in Developing Countries: Understanding the Role of Dynamic Natural and Social Systems
… of consistent and reliable levels of nutritious food may be one of the most brutal results of poverty. Beyond the human suffering, the lack of food security has damaging economic consequences, making it difficult for communities to break poverty cycles. This dissertation studies the various …
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WFP supply chain capacity in Ethiopia : an analysis of its sufficiency, constraints & impact
The WFP's transport of food aid to Ethiopia's landlocked population is constrained by supply chain bottlenecks at the port, and limited availability of trucks for inland transport. How can the WFP supply chain be optimized to effectively operate within the given constraints? First, we assess …
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An analysis of some aspects of Public Law 480
… than would be possible in the absence of the food aid. Food aid through P. L. 480 can increase the rate of economic development in the receiving country by increasing the rate of capital formation and by increasing the efficiency of the use of capital. It increases the rate of capital …
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Evaluation of Food Assistance Programs and Implications of Patients' Health Information Seeking
… this dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of food assistance by gathering evidence from developing countries and the United States. The first essay applies a multi-market model to three developing countries and simulate recent spikes in staple prices and food aid impacts. Results indicate that …
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"Too Poor to Eat": A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996
Signed on August 31, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s Food Stamp Act intended to deal with farmer surplus and provide a more nutritious diet for all Americans. Run by the United States Department of Agriculture, and operated as an agriculture program, food stamps remained separated from Johnson’s War on …
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Reaching the Chronic Poor and Food Insecure after a Disaster: The Case of Niger
… coping strategy employed after these shocks is food aid and receiving assistance from other households.
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Bowls, Banter, and Belonging: Emergency Food as a Third Space
… how are communities coping? Analyzing food banks shows part of the answer. This thesis explores how communities are responding to the decline of traditional "third spaces" by examining the growing social role of food banks. It investigates whether these sites, typically associated with …
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A study on the lead-times in the United Nations World Food Programme supply chain : a focus on the country offices
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the largest humanitarian agency in the world and the logistical arm of the United Nations, reached more than 113 million people in 80 countries in 2004 and delivered more than 50% of all the food aid in the world. In its endeavor of planning, …
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Talking with Their Mouths Half Full: food insecurity in the Hamilton community
While the sociology of food has attended to what symbolisms of presence can tell us about society, the same attention has not been attributed to symbolisms of absence. Within the context of affluent post-industrial societies, food insecurity means that people are “at times, uncertain of having, or …
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Orçamento público: uma análise comparativa das ações fixadas no QDD da PMPB 2016 e suas realizações
… in charges with the personnel of the active and food aid. Secondly, several shares suffered partial and total reductions, casting doubt on the portfolio's commitment to the shares, liquidation and payment remained fairly regular, representing the ability to discharge obligations.
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Food Security in Urban New Zealand: Food Waste, Food Utopias, and Food Values
… children in New Zealand reported being fully food secure (NZ Ministry of Health 2019). Even more frustrating is that supermarkets and restaurants in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are constantly stocked with 150-200% of surplus food over what it would take to nutritionally …
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