The impact of food aid on world malnutrition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6270715
AutoresJames N Schubert (Alfred University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1981
Volumen35
Número2
Páginas329-354
Fecha de publicación1981-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8183 • E-ISSN: 1531-5088
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002081830003246x
PMID12262497
OpenAlexW2010709816
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas12

Does food aid enhance or diminish the nutritional status of recipient populations in less developed countries? In proposing that the long-term impact is negative, critics have argued that aid depresses local food production, is maldistributed and mismanaged such that it does not reach the needy in sufficient quantities, or, where effective, that aid merely reduces the death rate relative to the birth rate, permitting more people to survive at the margin of existence. This study explores the long-term impact of U.S. Public Law 480 food aid through a crossnational analysis of aggregate data on aid receipts and change in nutritional status over the period from 1962 through 1974. Alternative hypotheses are tested through least squares methods and.mean difference tests in the framework of a nonequivalent control group, quasi-experimental design. This study supports the following generalizations: food aid is significantly related with improved nutritional status; the greater the aid, the greater the improvement in nutrition; higher aid recipients do not have significantly lower rates of growth in domestic food production; higher aid recipients do not have higher rates of population growth; and food aid may lead to greater meat consumption among higher aid recipients. Negative effects, experienced in some countries at some times, are not systematically incurred by all food aid recipients over time. In general, food aid does improve nutrition

Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Biology · Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Food aid · Food consumption · Food processing · Food security · Geography · Malnutrition · Margin (machine learning · Population · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Food Science · International Development and Aid · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare