1 Development aid and food security Christian Friis Bach and Alan Matthews 1 Second Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis 20-22 June 1999 Danish Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Economics Denmark 1 Christian Friis Bach is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark : email: cfb@econ.ku.dk . Alan Matthews is Jean Monnet Professor of European Agricultural Policy at the Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland : email: Alan.Matthews@tcd.ie . The paper was initiated while the latter was a visitor at the Development Economics Research Group at the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen and the hospitality provided is gratefully acknowledged.