Hunger in the Balance by Jennifer Clapp

Author:Jennifer Clapp [Clapp, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Development, Developing & Emerging Countries, Social Science, Economic Development, Political Science, Business & Economics, General
ISBN: 9780801450396
Google: 7y9KDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 13789291
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

Explaining Political Responses to GMO Food Aid

The advent of genetically modified foods transformed and complicated debates over the role and form of international food aid. Earlier studies on the politics of food aid from the 1960s to the early 1990s focused on the impact of the Cold War and wrangling among grain exporters over surplus grain disposal. Because agricultural biotechnology had not yet become commercialized or used on a wide scale, earlier international relations scholars of food aid did not foresee the ways in which it would spark intense political debates over food aid. Diverging policies among donors—the United States and the EU in particular—over the role of in-kind, commodity-form food aid versus financial resources for procurement at the local and regional level focused attention on the issue in the early 2000s.

At the same time that the divergence of policies presented the problem of GMO food aid, debates over tying became entangled in broader political and scientific debates over genetic modification of foods. Further complicating the politics of the issue was the lack of clear international rules over the movement of GMOs, including food aid, across borders. And they were additionally complicated by the different economic interests of donors.

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