The Effects Of Untying International Food Assistance: The Case Of Canada
Most donor countries historically linked international food assistance programs to their domestic agricultural support policies through tying policies that required donated food to be purchased in donor country markets. Tying policies have been shown to reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of food assistance along several dimensions, including cost, timeliness, and cultural appropriateness.
About the Speaker:
Ryan Cardwell, Professor, Department of Agribusiness & Agricultural Economics University of Manitoba and Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. His research investigates how the Canadian policy to untie food assistance affected Canadian shipments using an operation-level dataset from the World Food Programme to investigate how procurement sources and commodity compositions changed after untying, and an empirical model of Canadian food assistance shipments that is used to compare observed shipments to counterfactually-tied shipments.