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The world's largest humanitarian agency : the transformation of the UN World Food Programme and of food aid /

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This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, D. John
Corporate Author: Ebooks Corporation
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
World Food Programme > History.
Food relief > International cooperation > History.
Food relief > International cooperation > United Nation.
Political Science.
Social Science.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 429 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780230308732 (electronic)
0230308732 (electronic)