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| List of illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The basics of food aid | |
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| Modest flows intended to make a big difference at the margin | |
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| The players in the food aid game | |
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| Food aid distribution modalities and channels | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Donor-oriented food aid: the United States of America | |
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| US food aid programs | |
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| American farm policy and food aid | |
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| American food aid is primarily about feeding the hungry | |
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| Food aid is an effective form of support for American farmers | |
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| Food aid and American development assistance policy | |
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| American food aid is no longer driven by short-term self-interest | |
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| Multilateral and other bilateral donors | |
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| Canada | |
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| Europe | |
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| Other bilateral donors | |
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| Multilateral food aid | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| International regulatory mechanisms and trade disputes | |
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| International regulatory mechanisms | |
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| Food aid is wholly additional | |
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| Food aid and commerical food trade | |
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| Food aid builds long-term commercial export markets for donors | |
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| Genetically modified foods | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| So who benefits? The "iron triangle" | |
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| Domestic producers and processors | |
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| Maritime interests | |
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| Cargo preference laws ensure the viability of the US maritime industry | |
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| Nongovernmental organizations | |
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| Nongovernmental organizations are a progressive force in food aid | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Edging towards a recipient-oriented food aid system | |
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| Changing views of food insecurity: from Malthus to Sen | |
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| A rights-based perspective to livelihoods approaches | |
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| Implications of rights-based approaches: standards and codes of conduct | |
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| Poverty traps and relief traps | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The uses of food aid to address food insecurity | |
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| Acute humanitarian emergencies | |
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| Safety nets for vulnerability reduction and asset protection | |
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| Food aid for development | |
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| Monetization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The management of food aid in addressing food insecurity | |
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| Targeting | |
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| Food aid reliably reaches hungry people and only hungry people | |
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| Food aid reliably arrives when it is needed | |
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| Information systems and sources | |
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| Procurement, supply chain management, and reserves | |
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| Food availability shocks covary across countries within a region | |
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| A dollar spent on food aid is a dollar consumed by hungry people | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Consequences of poor food aid management | |
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| Humanitarian impacts: nutrition and health | |
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| Distortions, disincentives, and dependency | |
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| Food aid creates dependency | |
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| Food aid necessarily hurts recipient country producer incentives | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recasting food aid's role: the general strategy | |
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| A strategy for reducing poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition | |
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| The roles of food aid in an overall food security strategy | |
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| The roles of the main food aid actors | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Recasting food aid's role: the particulars and the politics | |
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| International policy changes needed | |
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| Negotiate a new Global Food Aid Compact to replace the Food Aid Convention | |
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| Restore real global development assistance flows | |
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| United States policy changes needed | |
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| Negotiate reductions in outdated forms of food aid | |
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| Focus on quicker and more flexible emergency response | |
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| Eliminate unnecessary bureaucratic duplication | |
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| Within current budgets, adapt the resource to fit the application | |
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| Other bilateral donor policy changes needed | |
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| Recipient country government and community policy changes needed | |
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| Operational agency policy and programming changes needed | |
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| Improve the targeting of food aid | |
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| Use food aid only where it is appropriate | |
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| Getting there from here: the politics of reform | |
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| Convincing the NGOs | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |