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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
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Historical background
  • From development projects to emergency operations:
  • Tipping points in WFP's transformation
  • Emergency assistance: transformation accomplished
  • Anatomy of WFP emergency operations
  • Associated development programmes and projects
  • Transforming food aid
  • The way ahead: opportunities and challenges.