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Title:Food aid: a Trojan horse?
Author:Dzietror, Akrofi
Year:1988
Pages:57
Language:English
City of publisher:Accra
Publisher:Ghana Universities Press
ISBN:9964301448
Geographic terms:developing countries
Ghana
United States
Subjects:food aid
development cooperation
Abstract:In this lecture, the author takes a critical look at US food aid, which constitutes the largest food aid in global terms and volume by any one country. He deals in particular with the US Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480 - PL 480 for short), which regulates the disposal of surplus agricultural commodities 'in furtherance of the foreign policy of the US'. He analyses the various sections of this 'Food for Peace' law, how the law has operated to regulate US food aid and agricultural policy in the Third World, and some of the implications for Third World countries, especially Ghana.