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Fast Food: Regulating Emergency Food Aid In Sudden-Impact Disasters, David Fisher
Fast Food: Regulating Emergency Food Aid In Sudden-Impact Disasters, David Fisher
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
A rich and varied literature has grown up around food aid,' in particular with regard to its use as a development tool, in response to slow-onset disasters (such as droughts and desertification), and in armed conflicts. Given that these applications make up the bulk of the millions of tons of food aid recorded annually and present some of the thorniest operational issues, perhaps it is not surprising that the regulation of food aid provided in sudden-impact disasters (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, wind storms, and floods) has not been as thoroughly examined.
Still, while the amount of food involved is comparatively …