Food Aid After Fifty Years Recasting Its Role

By Christopher B. Barrett, D. Maxwell. 2005

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Does food aid Really have disincentive effects? New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (2005, background): “See Barrett and Maxwell (2005) for”
Vulnerable livelihoods in Somali Region, Ethiopia (2006, background): “132 A recent review of the dependency effects of food aid concluded that evidence for these negative effects is usually anecdotal and inconclusive, and argues for more rigorous impact assessments to be conducted before any definitive conclusions can be drawn (Barrett and Maxwell 2005).”
Food security governance: a systematic literature review (2014, background): “…food security in relation to sociopolitical stability, a chapter by Schilpzand et al. (2010) on the role of private sector involvement and a book by Barrett and Maxwell (2005) on governance issues in food aid A description of the data Characteristics of the body of literature The food security…”
Food Aid's Intended and Unintended Consequences (2006, positive): “Barrett and Maxwell (2005) describe a collapse in sorghum prices in southern Somalia in 2000, linking it, in part, to poorly timed sorghum food aid delivered to Ethiopia that then moved across the border and adversely impacted producers in southern Somalia.”
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “Food assistance will likely continue to be a major tool for ameliorating food insecurity in the early stages of climate change, when many low-income nations are just beginning to experience rising incomes (Barrett and Maxwell 2005).”
Factors Influencing Household Food Security in West Africa: The Case of Southern Niger (2014, background): “Barrett and Maxwell [12] argued that food aid contributes to economic development and protects basic human rights, where the aid fills a severe food gap.”
Post-green revolution food systems and the triple burden of malnutrition (2013, background): “shipments from high-income countries (Barrett and Maxwell, 2005; IEG, 2011).”
Working Paper No. 4. Cash Transfers and High Food Prices: Explaining Outcomes on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (2010, background): “Food aid was increasingly criticised for being expensive to ship, store and distribute, competing unfairly with local production and trade, and being inflexible and paternalistic (Barrett and Maxwell 2005).”
Rising Food Prices in Sub-Saharan Africa: Poverty Impact and Policy Responses (2008, methodology): “…under certain conditions, it is not in many cases the most efficient tool for addressing food insecurity (for other reviews of the literature on food aid, including in Africa, see Kirwan and McMillan, 2007 and Barrett and Maxwell, 2005). by public works projects and nutritional supplementation.”
For Reducing Poverty Faster: Target Reasons Before People (2007, background): “Especially when food aid results in better nutrition outcomes for families, it can act as an effective safety net against descent (Barrett & Maxwell, 2005; Quisumbing, 2003).”
‘We Are All Poor Here’: Economic Difference, Social Divisiveness and Targeting Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “Emergency food operations are unpredictable in size and cost, they incur inevitable logistical delays in reaching their beneficiaries and they can provoke adverse effects on food markets when their timing or targeting work less well than intended (Barrett and Maxwell, 2005: ch. 9).”