The Geography of Food Aid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8963249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John R Tarrant (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 125-125 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/622259 |
| OpenAlex | W2315731724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
The distribution of food aid is not related to the distribution of food need. As far as the donor countries are concerned food aid has been predominantly a surplus disposal programme and when opportunities are presented for commercial sale of food produced in excess of domestic needs, these are favoured over aid shipments. For bilateral food aid the countries selected to be recipients are those for whom political relationships with the donors are important. In the recipient countries food aid may be used to feed selected groups, usually in urban areas. Food aid may allow a cheap food policy to be followed to the detriment of domestic food producers, but assisting these producers by supporting incentive prices for domestically produced food would place this even further beyond the reach of many of the poor. Food gaps between domestic production and demand are expected to be much larger by 1990 than they are today and the need for food aid will continue
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Economic geography · Economics · Food aid · Food security · Geography · Human geography · Regional science · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2008 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |