Against the Grain The Dilemma of Project Food Aid
Jackson, Tony; Eade, Deborah Publisher: OXFAM Print Room, United Kingdom Year Published: 1982 Pages: 132pp Resource Type: Book
Jackson and Eade critique food aid programs as ineffective and potentially damaging to developing nations. The authors argue for substantially reduced food aid programs and for their better administration.
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Table of Contents
Foreword - by Director General of Oxfam Preface 1. Project Food Aid: An Irreplaceable Tool for Development 2. Food Aid for Disaster Relief and Refugees i) When is Food Aid Needed ii) What Kind of Food? iii) How Should Food Aid be Distributed? iv) When Should Relief Food Aid Stop? v) How is Food Aid Released for Disaster Relief and Refugee Feeding? vi) Conclusions 3. Food-For-Work i) Public Works ii) Community Development iii) Resettlement Projects iv) Conclusions 4. Food Aid and Mother-Child Health Programmes i) Supplementary Feeding and Nutritional Improvement ii) Targeting Food Aid Through MCH iii) Nutrition Education 5. School and Other Institutional Feeding i) Conclusions 6. The Cost of Project Food Aid i) Conclusions 7. The Management of Food Aid i) Logistical Problems ii) Targeting and Monitoring iii) The Conceptual Problem: Programme Objectives and Evaluations iv) Conclusions 8. Project Food Aid as Competition with Local Food Production i) Taking Buyers Out of the Market ii) Drawing People Away from Agricultural Work iii) Competition for Resources iv) Conclusions 9. Conclusions References Appendix Bibliography
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