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Zusatztext Given the breadth and depth of the analysis, this landmark study offers the most authoritative and historically comprehensive assessment of the politics of American food aid. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with food aid and humanitarian assistance. Informationen zum Autor Barry Riley is a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Food Security and the Environment in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. For nearly 50 years, he has been a participant in the domain of foreign economic assistance, first with the U.S. Government, then the World Bank, and finally as a private consultant. In recent decades, he has sought to discover how American international food aid has been shaped and reshaped over two centuries to serve the widely differing objectives of Presidents, legislators, and interest groups operating in quite distinct periods of American history. Klappentext The Political History of American Food Aid provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing American food aid policy and a foundation for examining its historical relationship with relief, economic development, food security and its possible future in a world confronting the effects of global climate change. Zusammenfassung The Political History of American Food Aid provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing American food aid policy and a foundation for examining its historical relationship with relief, economic development, food security and its possible future in a world confronting the effects of global climate change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: The Early Episodes: 1794-1914 Chapter Two: Herbert Hoover Chapter Three: "...but now came Famine and Pestilence..." Chapter Four: Between the Wars Chapter Five: Interlude: The American Farmer Chapter Six: The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA Chapter Seven: Harry Truman, European Hunger and the Cold War Chapter Eight: The Marshall Plan Era Chapter Nine: Public Law 480 Chapter Ten: The Politics of Food Surpluses Chapter Eleven: Kennedy: Food Aid and Economic Development Chapter Twelve: Lyndon Johnson's Food Aid Battles Chapter Thirteen: LBJ, India and the Short Tether Chapter Fourteen: The Nixon Years: Two Case Studies Chapter Fifteen: A Global Food Crisis Chapter Sixteen: The World Food Conference Chapter Seventeen: Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan Chapter Eighteen: The Search for Food Security Chapter Nineteen: The Ethiopia Conundrum Chapter Twenty: From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990-2014 Chapter Twenty-One: Change...and Resisting Change Bibliography ...
