This review focuses on the health and nutrition impacts of food assistance programs. We focus particular attention on the United States, both because of the plethora of types of programs and associated variation and because spending on these programs is a large share of the nonmedical safety net...

Based on a case study of Tanzania, this paper analyzes the effects of the international response to HIV/AIDS on nutrition security policies. Because of its interactions with nutritional issues and its relatively abundant resource endowment, HIV/AIDS is at the heart of nutrition security policies...

The response to the Haiti Earthquake in 2010 has been declared the largest humanitarian operation ever carried out in a single country. Efficiently allocating scarce resources for responding to such type of massive disaster has proven to be extremely challenging. This paper identifies areas...

This paper assesses the degree to which the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI) has been implemented in Ghana within the framework of managing for development results (MfDR), and to evaluate progress in various outcomes, including economic governance, agricultural growth, poverty, and...

We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...

We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...

This paper uses case studies of Bangladesh, Ghana, Rwanda, and Senegal to assess the degree to which the L'Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI) has been implemented within the framework of managing for development results (MfDR) and to evaluate progress in various outcomes, including economic...