This examination of food aid focuses in particular on institutional questions.

The sending of food aid can be questioned, because food aid often does not get to the areas of greatest need, it is frequently stolen en route by the military, and organizations are too slow to respond to need. Food aid has been historically a major element of development aid to support longer-term development and the primary response to help countries and people in crisis. Doubts about food aid are arising because there is a growing mismatch between the new circumstances produced by rapid political and economic change and the international arrangements and institutions for food aid that are predicated on an earlier reality. In an environment of risks, uncertainty and rapid change, prevailing in the early 1990s, food aid and other assistance have increasingly been organized as part of efforts to assure human security in terms of livelihoods, food, health, a sustainable environment, personal and political security. However, to what extent is this multiplicity of goals realized in practice? To what extent do the modalities and institutional arrangement for aid permit them to be realized? It is on institutional questions that this examination of food aid focuses in particu

Introduction - food aid and human security, Edward Clay, Olav Stokke
the changing role of food aid and finance for food, Edward Clay, Olav Stokke
food prospects and potential imports of low-income countries in the 21st century, Rajul Pandya-Lorch
the Uruguay Round, the Marrakech decision and the
role of food aid, Panos Konandreas et al
the Food Aid Convention - an effective safety net? Charlotte Benson
humanitarian crises - food security and conflict prevention, Uwe Kracht
humanitarian crisis and conflict - food assistance and nutritional security issues, Jeremy Shoham et al
humanitarian crises and natural disasters - a SADC perspective, Roger Buckland et al
food aid for development - a review of the evidence, Nita Pillai
the World Food Programme (WFP) and international food aid, Just Faaland et al
is there a future for the WFP as a development agency? or does food aid still have a comparative advantage? Jens H. Schulthes
EU food aid and NGOs, Mary Cecile Thirion
developing codes of conduct of food aid - experience from the Sahel, Robin Jackson
the follow-up of the code of conduct of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Alain Mourey
promoting a human rights perspective on food security - highlights of an evolving process, Wenche Barth Eide
revisiting the food aid debate - taking a closer look at the institutional factor, Martin Doornbos
food aid and human security - retrospective and an agenda for change, Edward Clay, Olav Stokke.