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Explain the conditions where food aid can be beneficial and when it can be harmful to the poor. In your answer, make sure that you explain the intuition of why food aid could be beneficial or harmful to the poor.
Between 1996 and 2006, the number of chronically hungry people in poor countries increased by over 20 million.
(1) Today, 850 million people 13 percent of the world population cannot afford their most basic food needs.
(2) And every year more than 8 million people die as a result of hunger and malnutrition.
(3) By undermining the health and productivity of individuals, hunger also obstructs social and economic development at large.
* Even conditions Food aid are the beneficial to the Poor :
Food aid given either as actual food items or as cash to buy food can play a critical role in reducing hunger. By providing emergency food aid, governments, UN agencies and non governmental organizations can save millions of lives when natural disasters or wars threaten people's access to food.