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Additional Resources
Books and Articles
Barrett, Christopher. Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Bourlaug, Norman. The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity. 1970 Nobel Peace Prize lecture.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/borlaug-lecture.html
The Development Effectiveness of Food Aid: Does Tying Matter? Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2005.
http://webdomino1.oecd.org/comnet/dcd/untiedpubliccws.nsf/viewHtml/index/$FILE/pdf_Food%20aid%20study_en.pdf
Dugger, Celia W. "CARE Turns Down Federal Funds for Food." New York Times (9 August 2007): p.A1.
Dugger, Celia W. “Bush Gains Support for New Approach on Global Food Aid.” International Herald Tribune, Americas Edition (21 April 2007).
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/21/america/web-0421food-35235.php
Edkins, Jenny. Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid. Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Kent, George. Freedom From Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.
Kristof, Nicholas D. "Bono, Foreign Aid and Skeptics." New York Times, (9 August, 2007), p. A19.
Melito, Thomas. Foreign Assistance: Various Challenges Limit the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Food Aid. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accounting Office, 24 May 2007.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07905t.pdf
Raney, Terri, and Prabhu Pingali. "Sowing a Gene Revolution." Scientific American, vol. 297, no.3 (September 2007): pp. 104-111.
O’Neill, Helen, and John Toye, eds. A World Without Famine? New Approaches to Aid and Development. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Runge, C. Ford, et. al. Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003.
Schaible, Ulrich E., and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann. "Malnutrition and Infection: Complex Mechanisms and Global Impacts." PLoS Medicine, vol. 4, no. 5 (May 2007): pp. 806-812.
U.S. Agency for International Development. Celebrating Food for Peace, 1954-2004: Bringing Hope to the Hungry. Washington, DC: USAID, 2004.
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/ffp/50th.
World Trade Organization. Agriculture Negotiations: Backgrounder, Food Aid. 2002.
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/agric_e/negs_bkgrnd25_ph2foodaid_e.htm
Internet Sites
U.S. Government
U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of Food for Peace
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/ffp
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Browse/TradeInternationalMarkets/FoodSecurityHunger.htm
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service
http://www.fas.usda.gov/food-aid.asp
U.S. Department of State
http://www.state.gov/e/eeb/tpp/c10325.htm
U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome
http://usunrome.usmission.gov
Other Resources
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
http://www.rockfound.org/initiatives/agra/agra.shtml
The Alliance for a Green Revolution is a joint initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote agriculture development to reduce hunger and poverty in Africa -- similar to the Green Revolution of the 1960s.
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
http://www.cgiar.org
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, better known by its acronym CGIAR, is made up of representatives from countries, international and regional organizations, and private foundations. The group promotes sustained agricultural growth that benefits the poor through scientific research in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, policy issues, and the environment.
Famine Early Warning Systems Network
http://www.fews.net
Experts in the United States and Africa feed data into the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which is a system that monitors and analyzes information -- including remotely sensed data and ground-based meteorological, crop, and rangeland conditions -- that could indicate potential threats to food security.
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project
http://www.fantaproject.org
The USAID-funded Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, which is managed by the Academy for Educational Development, works to integrate strategies to combat food insecurity and malnutrition with a focus on women and children, and provides this information for governments, nongovernmental organizations, and other groups that work in the field.
Hunger Web
http://nutrition.tufts.edu/academic/hungerweb
Hunger Web is an academic Web site run by Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy that provides general information, research findings, and links to people interested in learning about and combating hunger on a local, regional, national, or international stage.
International Food Policy Research Institute
http://www.ifpri.org
The International Food Policy Research Institute has a two-fold mission: to help develop local, national, and international public policies that lead to sustainable food security and improvements in nutrition, and to conduct and disseminate research into sound food policies.
Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
http://www.africanhunger.org
The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa is led by American and African leaders and aims to marshal public and private support in the United States to end hunger on the continent through a focus on strengthening its food and agricultural sectors.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
http://www.fao.org
A sister agency to the World Food Program, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization works in developed and developing countries to end world hunger. It focuses its efforts on developing rural areas, which it says are home to 70 percent of the world’s hungry.
United Nations World Food Program
http://www.wfp.org/english The U.N. World Food Program is that international body’s leader in fighting world hunger and operates programs that feed millions of hungry people across the globe. The agency’s Web site also includes an interactive “hunger map” that shows countries where hunger is most prevalent.
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/nutrition/en/index.html
The World Health Organization is the U.N. body responsible for global health matters and focuses, among other things, on the importance of nutrition to health and development.
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