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4 - Performing for Scraps

Comparing the FAO, the WFP, and IFAD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2023

Ranjit Lall
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University of Oxford
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Chapter 4 begins the qualitative portion of the empirical examination. I conduct an in-depth comparative case study of the three central pillars of global food security governance: the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). I begin by detailing the matching strategy used to identify these institutions, documenting their similar levels of several possible determinants of performance and policy autonomy. The bulk of the chapter traces how differences in de facto – but not de jure – policy autonomy have set the institutions on divergent performance trajectories: The WFP and IFAD are autonomous and widely recognized as effective, whereas the FAO is state-dominated and notorious for performance problems. Rather than formal design features, I locate the origin of this variation in the institutions’ distinct governance tasks and patterns of operational collaboration with non-state actors. Interviews and archival data gathered during fieldwork at the institutions’ Rome headquarters adduce key pieces of evidence in this process-tracing exercise.

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Making International Institutions Work
The Politics of Performance
, pp. 99 - 166
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Performing for Scraps
  • Ranjit Lall, University of Oxford
  • Book: Making International Institutions Work
  • Online publication: 16 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216265.006
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  • Performing for Scraps
  • Ranjit Lall, University of Oxford
  • Book: Making International Institutions Work
  • Online publication: 16 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216265.006
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  • Performing for Scraps
  • Ranjit Lall, University of Oxford
  • Book: Making International Institutions Work
  • Online publication: 16 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216265.006
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