Chapter 10 Online quizzes

Food aid is defined as any voluntary transfer of money or food items that is aimed to increase food security of a specific population. Which pillar(s) of food security does it aim to improve?

Availability and access

Stability, availability, access, and utilization

Access

Utilization, stability, and access

Which of the following agents would not be considered to be part of any food aid supply chain?

A friendly neighbour

Local government officials

Primary school students

All of the agents mentioned are potentially part of a food aid supply chain.

None of the agents mentioned are potentially part of a food aid supply chain.

Which of the following food aid efforts is not an example of international food aid?

WFP air dropping water to a country that has just been hit by a natural disaster.

Chinese government sponsoring a food-for work road building program in Tanzania

A civil society organization supporting school feeding program in another country.

All of the above are examples of international food aid.

Which of the following most accurately depicts the trends in international food aid flows in the first decade of the 21^st century?

The absolute amount of international food aid has remained constant, % of food aid given in the form of international programme aid has decreased, and % of direct transfer procurement has increased.

The absolute amount of international food aid has reduced, % of food aid given international programme aid has decreased, and % of direct transfer procurement has decreased.

The absolute amount of international food aid has remained constant, % of food aid given as international programme aid has increased, and % of direct transfer procurement has decreased.

The absolute amount of international food aid has increased, % of food aid given as international programme aid has remained constant, and % of direct transfer procurement has increased.

In which of the following situations might providing food aid in the form of cash be preferable to in-kind?

If recipients are suffering in the wake of a hurricane, when local infrastructure has been destroyed.

If recipients live in reasonable safe conditions in medium-sized towns with decent infrastructure.

If recipients live in very remote rural locations, far from local markets.

None of the options given is correct.

Your grandmother does not like the food offered in the cafeteria of her assisted living home and you are afraid she will not eat. You have leftovers from dinner that you bring to her. She is overjoyed and offers you a bit of money for your expenses. You decline, reassuring her that it is your pleasure. This is an example of what?

Supplementary feeding

Balanced reciprocity

SNAP

Generalized reciprocity

None of the options given is correct

In some contexts, farmers are food insecure only in certain parts of the year (e.g. outside of the harvest season). If food aid is delivered in cash to those farmers in the months that they are food secure, this is an example of a(n):

Incentives problem

Targeting problem

Principal-agent problem

All of the options given are correct

What percentage of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) is food aid?

25%

20%

15%

10%

<5%

Which of the following can be causes of aid dependency?

Disincentives to work

Price decreases

Crowding out of local food products

All of the options given are correct.

What is an example of a food aid programme designed to promote both food security and food sustainability at the same time?

USAID emergency food aid to Haiti

SNAP

PNAE

The Langar soup kitchen

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