Evaluate the impacts of aid on reducing food security (10) Flashcards
Intro & definitions
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- Project aid
- Emergency aid
- Program aid- how it can be detrimental
Examples for project aid
The FAO set up a project in rural Honduras to promote
entrepreneurship among rural youth.
-They were trained in agricultural and business skills and were supported in accessing credit and seed funds to launch and grow their microenterprises.
The result was more than 1,500 successful microenterprises.
Explanation for project aid
Provides support to field-based projects in areas of chronic need through deliveries of food (usually free) to a government or NGO that either use it directly (e.g. Food For Work and school feeding).
Cash-voucher schemes are increasingly being used by NGOs.
Examples for emergency aid
In response to the famines in Ethiopia, the WFP helped to feed the refugees and also support the government’s second five-year Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), a school meals program, and a vulnerability and mapping unit (VAM).
Explanation for emergency aid
Deliveries of free food to GO/NGO agencies responding to crises due to natural disasters or conflicts.
Examples for program aid
The USA continues to send the vast majority of its food aid support through ships aid from the US.
Shipment orders typically take 3-5 months.
The food is generally low quality and has low nutritional value.
USAID has been criticized for its program aid.
Explanation for program aid
Large shipments of food aid can actually undermine local economies rather than support them.
Local farmers are undercut by cheaper US imports and so actually suffer increased food insecurity of their own.
This is referred to as ‘food dumping’.
Subsidized deliveries of food to a central government that subsequently sells the food and uses the proceeds for whatever purpose (not necessarily food assistance).
Program food aid provides budgetary and balance of payments relief for recipient governments.
