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2017
This chapter describes the food security features in the humanitarian context focusing on the new way of working requested by the complexity of the current emergency situations and consisting in the passage from food aid to food assistance. To this purpose, the chapter introduces the concept of food aid and its distinguishing features followed by the ...
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This chapter describes the food security features in the humanitarian context focusing on the new way of working requested by the complexity of the current emergency situations and consisting in the passage from food aid to food assistance. To this purpose, the chapter introduces the concept of food aid and its distinguishing features followed by the ...
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1991
Food Program Facts [on]: Food Stamp Program --- National School Lunch Program --- The School Breakfast Program --- The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) --- Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) --- The Nutrition Assistance Programs in Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas --- The Child and Adult Care Food ...
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Food Program Facts [on]: Food Stamp Program --- National School Lunch Program --- The School Breakfast Program --- The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) --- Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) --- The Nutrition Assistance Programs in Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas --- The Child and Adult Care Food ...
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High Food Prices and International Food Assistance
2012High food prices in 2008 and 2010 generated concern about food security in developing countries. The number of food insecure people was estimated to have jumped significantly and food assistance donors were faced with unexpectedly high procurement bills.
Cardwell, Ryan T., Cardwell, Ryan T.
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Enzyme-assisted food processing
2011Enzymes, as biological catalysts, have been used extensively as processing aids in the food industry for the past several decades. They help to achieve desired attributes such as texture, color, flavor, and other important qualities of food materials, thus enabling raw materials and ingredients to be transformed into finished products.
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Transforming Food Aid to Food Assistance
2011The WFP’s Strategic Plan (2008—extended to 2013): marks a historical shift from WFP as a food aid agency to WFP as a food assistance agency, with a more nuanced and robust set of tools to respond to critical hunger needs. Its overarching goal is to reduce dependency and to support governmental efforts to ensure long term solutions to the hunger ...
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
Expenditures for USDA's 15 food assistance programs totaled $46 billion in fiscal 2004 (October 1, 2003, to September 30, 2004), marking the second consecutive year in which spending exceeded the previous record high. The fiscal 2004 spending level represented a 10-percent increase from the previous fiscal year, the fourth consecutive year in which ...
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Expenditures for USDA's 15 food assistance programs totaled $46 billion in fiscal 2004 (October 1, 2003, to September 30, 2004), marking the second consecutive year in which spending exceeded the previous record high. The fiscal 2004 spending level represented a 10-percent increase from the previous fiscal year, the fourth consecutive year in which ...
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Food Assistance Programs and Food Security
2014Food insecurity is a leading public-health challenge in the United States today. This is primarily due to the magnitude of the problem—about 50 million persons are food insecure—and the serious negative health and other outcomes associated with being food insecure.
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Domestic Food Assistance Programs
1991M any Americans received food assistance from the Federal Government in fiscal 1990, including food stamps, vouchers, food packages, or cash. The Food Stamp Program is the largest of the Federal food assistance programs in terms of both the number of people served and the amount of money spent. Monthly participation rates in the Food Stamp Program were
Matsumoto, Masao, Matsumoto, Masao
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The Food Assistance Convention
International Legal Materials, 2013The Food Assistance Convention (Convention), signed by seven countries and the European Union in April 2012, went into effect on January 1, 2013. The Convention replaces and builds on the 1999 Food Aid Convention (FAC 1999). The use of ‘‘assistance’’ instead of ‘‘aid’’ in the title signals a change in approach from fixed commodity donations to offering
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In‐Kind Food Assistance and Consumer Food Choice
Journal of Consumer Affairs, 1987In‐kind food assistance was the mainstay of federal food programs until the food stamp program expanded. Analysis of aggregate data suggests that large donations of cheese and butter since 1982, through the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program, replaced recipients’ normal purchases of the donated products, reduced consumption of close ...
JAMES A. ZELLNER, LARRY G. TRAUB
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