Self-Help

Summary of Self-Help

A provision of Title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (commonly known as P.L. 480) that stipulates that an aid recipient nation must undertake steps to improve its own agriculture. This self-help is manifested through allocating land to food, versus nonfood, crops; developing privately owned sources of agricultural chemicals, farm implements, and related industries; training farmers in improved techniques; constructing suitable storage facilities; improving distribution and marketing systems; improving the economic climate for investment in agriculture; adopting producer-incentives programs; expanding agricultural research; committing local funds to programs of agricultural expansion; and implementing voluntary population control programs. Failure to adopt adequate self-help measures may imperil continued aid.

(Main Author: William J. Miller)

Concept of Self-help

An introductory definition of Self-help is provided here: necessity to rely on a states' own resources and capabilities

Self-help

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on self-help explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

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See Also

• Foregin Policy
• Foreign Affairs

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See Also

• Community
• Collective Right
• Society
• Public Law

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Further Reading

• The entry “self-help” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press