Recasting Food Aid's Role

6 Pages Posted: 1 Nov 2004

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Christopher B. Barrett

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

Daniel Maxwell

CARE East Africa Regional Management Unit

Date Written: August 2003

Abstract

Anniversaries are a time for celebration and reflection. July 10 marks the 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower's signing of U.S. Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, commonly known as PL480. Global food aid programs, the largest of which is PL480, have brought together governments, businesses, multilateral institutions such as the World Food Programme (WFP), and American private voluntary organizations (PVOs) in a valuable public-private partnership intended to reduce hunger and suffering around the world. Over the past half century, PL480 programs alone have contributed more than 340 million metric tons of food aid to save and improve the lives of many hundreds of millions of poor and hungry people around the world.

Suggested Citation

Barrett, Christopher B. and Maxwell, Daniel, Recasting Food Aid's Role (August 2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=601924 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.601924

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Daniel Maxwell

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