As an introduction to food aid this paper reviews various definitions of food aid and terminology used by practitioners and academics. It also briefly examines the size of food aid relative to Official Development Assistance, trade and food production in recipient countries and recognizes that...

The spread of agricultural biotechnologies, and the conditions conducive to their development, have economic, social and environmental implications. This paper explores these implications for the realization of the right to food emphasizing genetic engineering as the most controversial...