"Capacity development is essential to participatory initiatives, especially given the recent trend toward decentralized governance in many developing countries.

""The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007.

The primary goal of emergency food aid after an economic shock is often to bolster short-term food and nutrition security.

The key objective of the study described here was to compare the impact of cash and food transfers on beneficiary households’ food and livelihood security and on the local economy.

The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance institutions that has emerged in the last 50 years.

"The primary goal of emergency food aid after an economic shock is often to bolster short-term food and nutrition security.

Poverty mapping applies models of household welfare developed from detailed household consumption and expenditure surveys to the extensive but less detailed data from national censuses.

This study aims to assess the value of poverty mapping to public-works projects undertaken by the World Food Programme (WFP) with the government of Malawi in its Food for Assets and Development (FFASD) program....Poverty mapping is a useful decisi

"Bangladesh’s Food for Education Program (FFE), which provided free food to poor families if their children attended primary school, was successful in increasing children’s school enrollment, especially for girls.