Food Aid
Does food aid create a dependency culture among the poor? From the onset, it would be prudent to note that food aid programs seek to achieve a wide of goals and objectives. Some of these objectives are inclusive of, but they are not limited to, improvement of family nutrition, improvement of food security, saved lives (i.e. via the elimination/reduction of hunger), etc. The goal of the United States food assistance programs, for instance, happens to be ensuring that populations affected by crises are provided with emergency food relief (Congressional Research Service CRS, 2021). The said programs also seek to avail assistance considered nonemergency with an intention of reining in food insecurity and help populations build resilience to potential threats to food supplies (CRS, 2021). On paper, the said goals and objectives are largely novel and beneficial. However, some, like Brown (2018), query the efficacy and relevance of food aid programs. The author quips; what if hungry people in various countries across the world would benefit more by NOT receiving food aid from abroad?
Available literature indicates that to some extent, food aid programs bring about more harm than good effectively meaning that they do not necessarily achieve their purpose. Swanson (2015) is categorical that in some instances, foreign aid including food aid programs does get in the way of the formulation and implementation of long-term solutions to address inherent problems (such as hunger). The author, for...
…note that as Park (2019) points out, the United States provides half of all global food aid. Other countries such as Germany, Turkey, the United Kingdom, etc. provide the other half. As Park further indicates, the US has traditionally opted to employ a bipartisan approach on this front, i.e. owing to the fact that it provides aid to multiple nations across the world (approximately 150 nations). The US covers processing and shipping costs, whereas the UN World Food Program distributes food aid (Park, 2009). At present, food aid program efforts in the US are deployed via in-kind assistance and market-based assistance (Congressional Research Service CRS, 2021). It should be noted that the in-kind approach still appears to be the countrys preferred and most relied upon…
References
Brown, H.C. (2018, March 22). Only 30 percent of American food aid pays for actual food. The Counter. https://thecounter.org/food-for-peace-modernization-act-2018-usaid-bob-corker/
Cohen, M. (2016, April 6). Dumping peanuts on Haiti. Oxfam. https://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2016/04/dumping-peanuts-on-haiti/
Congressional Research Service. (2021, February 23). US International Food Assistance: An Overview. CRS. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R45422.pdf
Guest Blogger. (2014, April 30). Sailing in the wrong direction: Food aid as a Congressional tool for supporting the shipping industry. Oxfam. https://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2014/04/food-aid-congressional-tool-supporting-shipping-industry/
Park, K. (2019, December 10). The Great American Food Aid Boondoggle. Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/10/america-wheat-hunger-great-food-aid-boondoggle/
Swanson, A. (2015, October 13). Why trying to help poor countries might actually hurt them. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/13/why-trying-to-help-poor-countries-might-actually-hurt-them/?utm_term=.c283eed9b173
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