Problem
Inappropriate food aid
Other Names:
Disruptive food imports Nature:
Food aid reduces local incentives to produce food, causes damaging shifts in food habits (away from local staples to imported wheat; away from breastfeeding to powdered milk), and undermines the cultural cohesiveness of the recipient country by introducing new cultural concepts which may be readily adopted but intrinsically disruptive to the traditional way of life.
Broader Problems:
Ineffectiveness of foreign aid Related Problems:
Inadequacy of food aid Strategies:
Accumulating global food stocksProviding food aidIncreasing global food productionReducing incidence of malnutritionImproving food aid policies and programmes Values:
AidDisruptionInappropriateness References:
Fletcher, Joseph: Chronic Famine and the Immorality of Food Aid: A Bow to Garrett Hardin Subject(s):
Amenities → FoodCommerce → Import, export
Development → Aid
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
24.04.2019 – 13:30 CEST