Hunger in the balance : the new politics of international food aid /
Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensi...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Food aid politics: the old and the new
- Past and present food assistance trends
- Donor policies on the question of tying
- U.S. debates on tied food aid
- The GMO controversy
- Food aid at the WTO
- The 2007-2008 food crisis and the global governance of food aid
- Conclusion: prospects for the future of food aid politics.
