Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability?

Posted: 31 Jan 2001

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Christopher B. Barrett

Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Abstract

The basic logic of food aid for food security is simple. Food aid should flow in response to food availability shortfalls that might cause undernutrition. This paper explores the empirical relationship between food aid flows per capita from the United States' PL480 programs and nonconcessional food availability per capita in PL480 recipient economies. If food aid indeed stabilizes food availability, then per capita food aid flows should be inversely related to recipients' per capita nonconcessional food availability, in terms of levels, deviations from trend, or both. This is an important and empirically testable hypothesis that, to the best of my knowledge, has not yet been studied.

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Barrett, Christopher B., Does Food Aid Stabilize Food Availability?. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=257446

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