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Food

United States. General Accounting Office

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 258


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Provided are over 500 citations with abstracts of food-related documents released by the General Accounting Office, Office of Technology Assessment, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Reserch Service, and Congressional Committees from July 1973 through September 1977. Topics are: domestic feeding programs; food safety and quality; nutrition education; nutrition surveillance; farm structure; food production-resources; farm marketing and distribution; price supports, set asides, marketing orders, target prices; food aid and development assistance; trade policies and promotion; population control; internal organization and policies; food policy determination; procurement and specifications; and financial auditing. Appended are abstracts of congressional documents on food, federal information sources and systems on food, recurring reports to the Congress on food, federal program evaluations on food, and major food legislation. Subject. agency/organization, and congressional indexes are included.
American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat-often the reality-of famine and death. The book investigates the little-known, not-well-understood and often highly-contentious political processes which have converted American agricultural production into tools of U.S. government policy. In The Political History of American Food Aid, Barry Riley explores the influences of humanitarian, domestic agricultural policy, foreign policy, and national security goals that have created the uneasy relationship between benevolent instincts and the realpolitik of national interests. He traces how food aid has been used from the earliest days of the republic in widely differing circumstances: as a response to hunger, a weapon to confront the expansion of bolshevism after World War I and communism after World War II, a method for balancing disputes between Israel and Egypt, a channel for disposing of food surpluses, a signal of support to friendly governments, and a means for securing the votes of farming constituents or the political support of agriculture sector lobbyists, commodity traders, transporters and shippers. Riley's broad sweep 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.