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Food aid: doing more harm than good in conflict-torn countries?
By
Katie Nguyen
AlertNet
February 03, 2012
From Biafra in the 1960s to present-day Somalia, armed groups have seized it to feed their ranks and to buy weapons. Sometimes it gets stolen from refugee camps or taken from aid convoys at checkpoints as a form of tax.
The merits of food aid have come under growing scrutiny over the years as anecdotes from the field and reports by journalists suggest the many ways it can inadvertently fuel conflict.
It'll come as no surprise to sceptics that this view is supported by a new study by two economists from the United States, the world's biggest food-aid donor.
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