Food aid today is widely and accurately considered an instrument for addressing the chronic food insecurity in low-income communities. Food aid can harm producers when food aid drives down prices of local products and the producers are not themselves beneficiaries of food aid. Even the poor net food buyers who are ignored in food distributions based on local purchases that drive up market food prices. The undesirable aspect arises when meeting current needs comes at the cost of reducing recipients’ capacity to meet their own basic needs in the future without external assistance. The role of the capital market should be to raise long-term funds for governments, banks, and corporations while providing a platform for the trading of securities.