Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries?

by Sarah Levy

Despite repeated interventions by governments, donors and NGOs in recent years, food insecurity continues and developing countries are forced to rely on food aid again and again. The original idea of Starter Pack was to give a tiny bag of agricultural inputs - fertilizer and seed - to every smallholder farmer in Malawi. Although the program did not work as originally intended, it was successful in achieving food security. The scaling down of the program...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851990088
• ISBN13: 9780851990088
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 320 Pages