The political economy of food aid in an era of agricultural biotechnology.

From: Global Governance | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Clapp, Jennifer | Copyright information

Recent years have seen numerous rejections of food aid containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The United States, as the principal donor of this aid, went on the defensive and blamed the European Union for hunger in developing countries. Rarely is food aid rejected. And rarely do food aid donors act so strongly to blame other donors. The reaction of both donors and recipients is also puzzling because it contradicts much of the literature from the 1990s that argued that th...

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