Footnote:
In: Global Governance, Forthcoming
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 2008 erstellt
Description:
The current global agreement governing food aid - the Food Aid Convention (FAC) - has been subject to annual renewals since it expired in 2002. Critics have pointed to some serious limitations, but negotiations over a new FAC have become entangled in U.S.-European agricultural trade disputes. Other issues in renegotiation include the patchwork quilt of food aid governance, in which the FAC's mandate overlaps with those of several other institutions; inadequate transparency; the nature of commitments - whether to express them in tonnage, value, or nutritional terms; the level of commitments and their distribution among donors; monitoring and enforcement of commitments; stakeholder representation on the FAC governing body; and the Convention's institutional quot;home.quot; Also problematic is whether the FAC should have an quot;instrument focusquot; - quot;food aidquot; or a quot;problem focus,quot; such as quot;food security.quot