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Food Aid

Food aid is a resource that contributes to the food security of millions of people worldwide. Reliable availability of and access to food, combined with proper utilization, are necessary conditions to assure that people have adequate amounts of food to lead healthy and productive lives. Where these conditions are not met, people do not have "food security," and varying degrees of undernutrition and malnutrition are the result. The distribution of food aid, either directly to targeted groups or through carefully planned sales in the marketplace ("monetization"), provides needed supplemental foodstuffs in cases of chronic hunger, during emergencies and during the transitional phase following an emergency.

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