The Politics of European Food Aid Policy from Delors to von der Leyen

This book offers a theoretically informed and empirically rich account of the origin, expansion, and institutionalization of EU's action against food poverty and severe material deprivation. This journey spans from the quasi-accidental onset of the first food-aid program in the late 1980s under the Common Agricultural Policy to its current puzzling and contested consolidation as a narrow yet highly symbolic element of social Europe's architecture. Ilaria Madama is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Milan, Italy, with a specialization in comparative welfare state research and European social governance. Her research interests include antipoverty, social inclusion, family and labour market policies/institutions, from both sides of policy trajectories and politico-institutional dynamics.