Redefining the role of food aid
Author: WFP/IFPRI
Year: 2004
Resource type: Article
The principal objective of food aid, besides responding to needs created by conflict, and other disasters, should be to provide an insurance function for those events for which existing insurance mechanisms function poorly.
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WFP/IFPRI (2004). Redefining the role of food aid. www.ennonline.net/redefiningtheroleoffoodaid
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