The new policy environment for food aid: the challenge of sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

Food-aid decisions are being made in a new policy environment and implemented under changing institutional arrangements and guidelines. Constrained budgets and changing US agricultural policies, as well as economic and policy reform in developing countries, affect food-aid decision-making and implementation at the national level. Global forces — trade liberalization, WTO negotiations and the outcome of the recent World Food Summit — create both constraints and opportunities for food aid's role in a more complicated and dynamic world.