- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- 1 The Early Episodes: 1794–1914
- 2 Herbert Hoover
- 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- 4 Between the Wars
- 5 Interlude
- 6 The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA
- 7 Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War
- 8 The Marshall Plan Era
- 9 Public Law 480
- 10 The Politics of Food Surpluses
- 11 Kennedy
- 12 Lyndon Johnson’s Food Aid Battles
- 13 LBJ, India, and the Short Tether
- 14 The Nixon Years
- 15 A Global Food Crisis
- 16 The World Food Conference
- 17 Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan
- 18 The Search for Food Security
- 19 The Ethiopia Conundrum
- 20 From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990–2014
- 21 Change . . . and Resisting Change
- Bibliography
- Index
The Search for Food Security
The Search for Food Security
- Chapter:
- (p.411) 18 The Search for Food Security
- Source:
- The Political History of American Food Aid
- Author(s):
Barry Riley
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
By the 1970s, concern that world hunger was increasing had energized the efforts of scholars, government officials, and those attentive to humanitarian concerns to focus on “food security” as the concept best suited to concert efforts to reduce global hunger. The problem was there was little agreement of what the term meant and how it could be used as an objective of policy; Simon Maxwell and Timothy Frankenberger unearthed two hundred separable definitions of the term. This chapter describes the evolution of food security thinking during the period 1970–90, from concern about the imbalance between existing food stocks and surging demand to concern about the difficulty in identifying the transitory and chronic causes of households being unable to gain secure access to the food they needed.
Keywords: transitory food insecurity, chronic food insecurity, food security, Simon Maxwell, Shlomo Reutlinger, food aid, Poverty and Hunger
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Acronyms
- 1 The Early Episodes: 1794–1914
- 2 Herbert Hoover
- 3 “But Now Came Famine and Pestilence”
- 4 Between the Wars
- 5 Interlude
- 6 The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA
- 7 Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War
- 8 The Marshall Plan Era
- 9 Public Law 480
- 10 The Politics of Food Surpluses
- 11 Kennedy
- 12 Lyndon Johnson’s Food Aid Battles
- 13 LBJ, India, and the Short Tether
- 14 The Nixon Years
- 15 A Global Food Crisis
- 16 The World Food Conference
- 17 Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan
- 18 The Search for Food Security
- 19 The Ethiopia Conundrum
- 20 From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990–2014
- 21 Change . . . and Resisting Change
- Bibliography
- Index
