Alleviating Transitory Food Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa: International Altruism and Trade |
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| Authors: | Lavy Victor |
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| Institution: | Victor Lavy is with the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. When this article was written, he was a consultant to the Population and Human Resources Department of the World Bank. The article was written under the auspices of the Technical Department of the World Bank's Africa Regional Office as a background paper to the study on Food Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa. The author would like to thank Shlomo Reutlinger for his assistance and useful insight and comments on the paper, the three referees of this journal for their detailed comments and suggestions, and the World Bank Research Committee for its financial support. |
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| Abstract: | The donor community has responded to unexpected or transitorydrops in domestic food production in many countries in Sub-SaharanAfrica. An empirical framework estimates and analyzes the correlationbetween this food aid and domestic production. Both emergencyfood aid and commercial imports are used to offset the effectsof negative output shocks in Sub-Saharan African countries—themajor recipients of global emergency food aid. On average everyone-ton drop in cereal production is offset by the deliveryof 0.8 tons of cereal and dairy products from abroad (over fouryears). Most food aid arrives within a year of a shock, andcorrelation of shocks over time along with the differences betweencrop years and calendar years may explain the link between aidand production. The economic and political considerations alsodetermine the global response to the emergency food needs ofcountries in Africa. The international response is not contingenton the form of government or the level of political and humanrights violations. Poorer countries and those with well-establishednon-emergency food aid programs receive larger amounts of emergencyaid when needed. |
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