A FUTURE FOOD AID REGIME - IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINAL ACT OF THE URUGUAY ROUND

The conclusion of the Uruguay Round and the setting up of the World Tr ade Organization provide a major opportunity for establishing a new fo od aid regime within a liberalizing global economy. The paper covers s everal related areas: it provides details of the food aid provisions o f the Final Act of the Uruguay Round; it reviews projections of future food aid requirements against current availabilities; it raises the b asic question as to what constitutes food aid, including the large vol ume of transactions in the ''grey area'' between food aid, as currentl y statistically recorded, and commercial trade; and it makes proposals for a future food aid regime in terms of its main features, and how i t should be administered. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd