Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability?

By Christopher B. Barrett. Economic development and cultural change, 2001

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This paper explores the empirical relationship between U.S. food aid flows per capita and nonconcessional food availability per capita in PL 480 recipient economies. The evidence suggests PL 480, while modestly progressive in its distribution, is if anything procyclical in recipient economies. Food aid fails to stabilize food availability. Both increased domestic food production--i.e., agricultural development--and commercial trade appear more effective than food aid in advancing food security objectives through the stabilization of food availability per capita in low-income economies.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Safety Research, Soil Science

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In General Health Professions

1. M. Kassie
2. B. Shiferaw
3. H. Teklewold

In Safety Research

1. M. Kassie
2. L. Lipschitz
3. H. Teklewold
4. B. Shiferaw

In Soil Science

1. M. Kassie
2. H. Teklewold
3. B. Shiferaw
4. A. Alene
5. G. Kohlin
6. J. Manda
7. Leslie Lipper
8. S. Asfaw

Citations in the corpus

• Aid Volatility: An Empirical Assessment (2003, background): “Furthermore, U.S. food aid (provided under Public Law (PL) 480)— one category of aid that one would expect to be highly countercyclical—has also been found to be mildly procyclical (Barrett, 2001).”
• Adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices in rural Ethiopia (2013, background): “Social safety nets/insurance, if properly implemented, can build farmer confidence so that he invests despite uncertainty, and can help farm households to smooth consumption and maintain productive capacity by reducing the need to liquidate assets that might otherwise occur, (Barrett 2005).”
• Impact of improved maize varieties on food security in Eastern Zambia: A doubly robust analysis (2018, unknown): “in order to smooth consumption and increase productivity (Barrett, 2001; Kassie et al., 2013).”
• Food Aid's Intended and Unintended Consequences (2006, unknown): “The balance of payments gains can be particularly helpful for stabilizing food availability in poor countries facing foreign exchange constraints (Barrett, 2001).”