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Food Aid Impacts in Rural Kenya

Year: 1988

Type: article

Abstract: Assessing the potential role of food aid in economic development requires that analytical attention be given to both household production and consumption consequences of food aid projects. Effects of a food‐for‐work (FFW) project in rural Kenya are assessed using a peasant‐household‐firm model which incorporates a linear programming model and an almost ideal demand system. The results indicate that program participants have net returns 52 percent higher than nonparticipants, most of which is due to induced effects of capital formation on own‐farm production. Greater capital formation increases the opportunity cost of participants' time, encouraging a transition over time from FFW activities to greater own‐farm production. FFW increases food demand, employment, and marketable surplus.

Source: American Journal of Agricultural Economics

DOI: 10.2307/1241988

Authors: Mesfin Bezuneh, Brady J. Deaton, George W. Norton

Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois System, Virginia Tech

Language: English

Topic: International Development and Aid

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Decent work and economic growth, Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2048485368

FWCI: 6.339

Cites: 14

Cited by: 78

Related to: 10