By D. John Shaw (auth.)
This e-book makes a speciality of the transformation of the WFP into the world's biggest humanitarian corporation, offering an in-depth account of responses to more and more huge and complicated typical and man-made mess ups. It examines foodstuff reduction and appears to the hot modalities which are required to make nutrition extra on hand to these in dire need.
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They did not want to set up a specialized, self- contained, agency and were concerned to create a structure that could be easily dismantled in the event that the WFP experiment did not succeed. The legal standing of the WFP’s administrative unit or secretariat was questioned until, in a letter to UN secretary-general U Thant of 20 June 1962, FAO director-general B. R. Sen gave his view of what he regarded as its status: I am of the opinion that the administrative unit is neither exclusively an integral part of FAO nor of the United Nations ...
The proposal would not be harmful to US friends and allies, since they were expected to participate in it. It would not be subjected to the same criticism that was directed against US bilateral food aid, as it would be administered through the UN. It would project a positive international image for the United States. And it would ‘out innovate’ his presidential opponent, who was also calling for a multilateral food aid mechanism. Ultimately, President Eisenhower announced to the UN General Assembly on 22 September 1960, when the presidential election campaign was in full swing, that the United States was ‘ready to join with other Member States of the United Nations in devising a workable scheme to provide [food surpluses] to Member States through the United Nations system relying on the advice and assistance of the Food and Agriculture Organization’ (UN, 1960).
Out of these compounded interests came the historic Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, which became widely known by its number, Public Law (PL) 480 (Baker, 1979; Epstein, 1987). The act was to institutionalize, and to provide the legal framework for, US food aid programmes. PL480 finally marked recognition that the paradox of US surplus food production alongside hunger and malnutrition in the world could no longer be considered to be isolated and temporary occurrences. It established an indelible relationship between US domestic agricultural, commercial, and foreign policy interests, and external economic and humanitarian assistance, which were often in conflict.