Food aid and food crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper documents the rapid expansion and changes in food aid flows to Sub-Saharan Africa up to mid-1985.Trends for Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole and for the more seriously affected countries are examined, as are the comparative experiences of food aid of individual countries in the region. Table 11 lists the Sub-Saharan African countries and indicates the most seriously affected food-short countries, as defined by the WFP/FAO task force.It should be borne in mind that some practical problems exist in compiling data on food aid. These include lack of availability of reliable data, especially of most recent data; lack of common terminology and definitions; and different accounting systems. These data problems are sometimes a source of confusion. However, the basic facts are clear: food aid gradually emerged during the early 1980s as a resource too often of considerable significance to many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. These trends were only accelerated with the crisis of 1984-1985. These facts provide a point of reference for further analysis of the sources of the crisis, its actual dimensions and consequences

Business · Confusion · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Food processing · Geography · Political science · Terminology · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · International Development and Aid · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology

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