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project paper

Redefining the role of food aid

linking research and action: sustainable options for ending hunger and poverty -- ifpri/wfp brief
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2004
| by John Hoddinott, Marc J. Cohen and Maria Soledad Bos

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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A study of food aid leakage in Bangladesh

linking research and action: sustainable options for ending hunger and poverty -- ifpri/wfp brief
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2004
| by Akhter U. Ahmed, Shahidur Rashid, Manohar Sharma and Sajjad Zohir

The estimated average leakage in the Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) programme due to short ration and undercoverage is 8 percent of the total wheat allotment.

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Examining the incentive effects of food aid on household behavior in rural Ethiopia

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2004
| by John Hoddinott

In Ethiopia, while superficial examination suggests strong disincentive effects of food aid on labor supply and agricultural activities, these largely vanish under more careful statistical analysis."" -- from Text

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Can young children's nutritional needs be met with a combination of fortified blended foods and local foods?

linking research and action: sustainable options for ending hunger and poverty -- ifpri/wfp brief
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2004
| by Marie T. Ruel, Cornelia U. Loechl, Purnima Menon and Gretchen Pelto

Fortified donated cereal blends can greatly contribute to improving the nutritional quality of complementary foods, but are not sufficient to completely close the iron and zinc gaps at current fortification levels in Haiti, even when combined with

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Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

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2004
| by Suneetha Kadiyala and Stuart Gillespie

"To fully realize the potential of food aid to reduce risk and to mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS, existing strategies and interventiuons need to be re-viewed using an HIV/AIDS lens." -- from Text