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The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid

This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System. It tells the story of the antecedents and origins of WFP and growth from modest beginnings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to become the main source of international food a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, D. John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2001, 2001
Subjects:
Economic Policy
Development Policy
Finance
Political Economy
Finance, General
Political Science And International Relations
International Organization
Political Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This is the first history to be written of the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations System. It tells the story of the antecedents and origins of WFP and growth from modest beginnings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to become the main source of international food aid for both disaster relief and development against the background of the evolution and development of food aid. This dual role has put WFP in the front line of the United Nations attack on poverty, hunger and food insecurity
Physical Description:XXVIII, 302 p online resource
ISBN:9781403905437

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