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ANNEX 7: DETERMINING IMPACT OF FOOD
AID DISTRIBUTION
The Bellmon Amendment requires assurance that a proposed food aid distribution program
would not result in a substantial disincentive to or interference with domestic production or
marketing. The extent to which distributed food aid has the potential to result in disincentive to
local production and markets rests fundamentally on whether or not proposed food aid will
represent "additional consumption" for beneficiary households, i.e., food consumption which
would not have occurred in the absence of the food aid distribution.
Why Would Food Aid Introduce a Substantial Disincentive to Local Production and
Markets?
Though food aid beneficiaries are expected to consume the food provided, households may
respond to the receipt of food aid in a number of ways depending on prices, local diet
preferences, perceived needs for non-food goods and access to local markets. A beneficiary
household may:
Consume the food aid without reducing its regular market purchases or small-scale
production to compensate for a food deficit in the normal diet caused by insufficient
purchasing power, in which case the food aid represents additional consumption;
Use a portion or all the food aid to displace market purchases that otherwise would have
been made;
Use a portion or all the food aid to substitute for the home consumption of own
production and sell the released production in the market; or
Consume some portion (or none of) the food aid and sell the other portion (or all) on the
market, and use the income generated from that sale to consume other food and nonfood
goods.
Effective targeting of food-deficit households will avoid substantial disruption of local production
and markets caused by providing food aid to households who would reduce market purchases
and/or household production of staples after receiving food aid.
In the case of a distribution activity such as PM2A, which has a very specific goal of preventing
early childhood malnutrition and therefore targets pregnant women, lactating mothers and
children under two years old, ‘effective targeting’ from a Bellmon perspective would involve
initial geographic targeting based on household food deficits, followed by targeting households
based on a PM2A activity eligibility (i.e., all children 6-23 months and all pregnant/lactating
women).
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