Feeding the Crisis: U. S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America

by Tom Barry and Rachel Garst

Since 1980 the United States has increased tenfold its shipments of food to Central America. Supposedly, tis humanitarian aid has alleviated social turmoil and economic underdevelopment in Central America. But has it really been in the best interests of the people it was intended to assist? After nearly two years of research that took them to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica, Rachel Garst and Tom Barry have concluded that U. S. food...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803260954
• ISBN13: 9780803260955
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"