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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"food aid programs"”.
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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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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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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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Understanding How Participating in a Food-Assistance Program In Rural Guatemala Alters Household Dietary Choices
<p>There is growing concern that food-assistance programs may contribute to overweight and obesity, but the factors that determine households' decisions regarding food quality and quantity in the context of food aid are not well understood. We studied these decisions using the community randomized …