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1991 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Food Aid and Agricultural Disincentives
Authors : Jim Fitzpatrick, Andy Storey
Published in: Development Perspectives for the 1990s
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The principle of distributing food aid in disaster or famine situations is largely uncontroversial. Most people agree that when starvation is a reality or a threat there is a moral imperative to act, whatever the costs or side effects. However, in practice most food aid is not used in emergencies. It is used to support projects or for commercial sale in non-famine situations. In such uses food aid has for long been controversial and strong negative views about it still persist.