2.2.1. Price stabilisation 193
 2.2.2. Stocking policies 195
 2.3. Food imports 197

3. Improving Access to Food 199
 3.1. Access to food on national and household levels 199
 3.2. Targeted asset distribution and production support 202
 3.3. Public works programmes and Food-for-Work schemes 203
 3.4. Targeted food subsidies 207
 3.5. Direct food transfers 212

4. The Impact Paths of Policies to Improve Food Security an Overview 213

Activities related to Chapter 5 217

Chapter 6 International Policy Interventions for Improving
Food Security 221

1. Introduction 224

2. Food Aid and Food Security 225
 2.1. General features 225
 2.2. Programme food aid 228
 2.3. Relief food aid 230
 2.4. Project food aid 231
 2.5. The role of food aid interventions in alleviating food insecurity 231
 2.5.1. Programme food aid to mitigate market supply 232
 deficits
 2.5.2. Relief and project food aid to mitigate demand 233
 deficits
 2.5.3. Food aid to stabilise supplies and prevent temporary 234
 food shortages
 2.5.4. Local purchases to compensate for demand deficits 235
 2.6. Evaluating and improving the efficacy of food aid 238
 interventions

 3. International Development Co-operation and Food Security 240
 3.1. Technical assistance 240
 3.2. Financial assistance 242

 4. International Trade and Food Security 244
 4.1. Unbalanced international trade 244
 4.2. Implications of the GATT Uruguay Round agreement 246

 5. Summary of the Major Results of the World Food Summit 249