Subject(s): Food aid policies -- Food -- Convergence & diversity : Evolution of food aid policies and programs -- Recipient countries - Bangladesh -Challenges of food security & development in a disaster prone economy -- India- towards cereal self sufficiency and transformation of food aid -- Pakistan : Green revolution and Afghanistan's war -- Honduras : Responding to economic recession in an environment of instability -- Tunisia : Food deficits and food aid in a middle- income country -- Lesotho : Sustainable development in a small landlocked economy -- Tanzania : Self reliance, economic growth and equality -- Donors - Australia - focus on poverty alleviation -- Canada : Reassessing food aid's roles for food security and structural adjustment -- European community :Growing pains -- Germany : EC member state national program, issues of parallel responsibility -- Netherlands : An EC member state national program, financing food and development -- Japan : Evolving food aid policies of an agricultural importing country -- Sweden : problems of good policy -- USA : Changing priorities in promoting development, humanitarian relief and agricultural trade