The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid - Couverture souple

Shaw, D-John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0333676696 ISBN 13 : 9780333676691

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Synopsis

The world produces food to provide every citizen with an adequate diet for a healthy and productive life. Yet the hungry-poor, comprising one-fifth of the developing world's population, do not have enough to eat. The coexistence of hunger with the capacity to end it is one of the gravest paradoxes of our time. It is not only morally repugnant but politically, economically and socially indefensible. Food aid has evolved and developed from the disposal of unwanted surpluses to its constructive use in both meeting emergencies and assisting development in the developing countries. Against this backdrop, the World Food Programme (WFP) was created as the food aid arm of the United Nations system with the aim of reaching and benefiting abjectly poor people in the world's poorest countries with two of their greatest needs - food and work. From modest beginnings as a three-year experiment in 1963-5, WFP grew to become the main source of international food aid for both disaster relief and development. This dual rote has put WFP in the front line of the United Nations attack on hunger, poverty and food insecurity. In describing WFP's evolution, the book, the first comprehensive history of the organization, contains material which appears in the public domain for the first time. It provides details of the diversity and versatility of food aid in assisting developing countries in many fields of development and its vital rote in meeting natural and man-made disasters.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

D. John Shaw was associated with the World Food Programme (WFP) for over thirty years. He served successively as Consultant, Senior Evaluation Officer, Senior Economist and Head of the Policy Unit in the Executive Director's Office, Economics Adviser and, finally, Chief of the Policy Affairs Service. Previously, he was a postgraduate in agricultural economics at the University of Oxford, Senior Lecturer in Rural Economy at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, Fellow in Agricultural Economics and a founder member of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and consultant to the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. He has written extensively on development and food aid issues and now serves on the International Editorial Board of the journal Food Policy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333676696
• ISBN 13: 9780333676691
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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