Food aid
- More pragmatic approach needed for the supply of cash or food aid
- This paper looks at the various aspects of the cash versus food debate, in order to map out where the controversies lie and to demonstrate the need for a more pragmatic, balanced and context-specific approach. A key concept in the paper is that appropriateness of either a cash or food transfer cannot be predetermined. Nevertheless, it is important to move from "cash versus food" to "cash and food", thus seeing cash and food as complimentary inputs rather than alternatives.
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- Improving food crisis response in fragile states: towards a common classification framework?
- ( C. Andrews;M. Flores / United Nations University , 2008)
- This paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognising the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper qu...
Strengthening emergency needs assessment: lessons from Ethipoia
- ( N. Haan;N. Majid;J. Darcy / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme , 2006)
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This study reviews the practice of Emergency Needs Assessment (ENA) in Ethiopia as it relates to food security, with a view to informing efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) to impro...
Establishing basic principles to guide decision-making in emergency situations
- ( United Nations [UN] World Food Programme , 2006)
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Targeting is a process that spans the life of a food aid operation, not just the initial phases of identifying beneficiaries. Finding the right balance between inclusion and exclusion errors, oppor...
- How can responses to emerging food insecurity crises be improved?
- ( E. Mathys / Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project , 2007)
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In geographic areas and populations chronically vulnerable to food insecurity, early warning and response (EWR) systems can provide necessary information to help modify programme interventions and ...
- Zambia's refusal of American GM food aid highlights the complexity of food issues
- ( C. Bergstrom / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2007)
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A failure to recongnise the complexity of food issues has led to the development of diverse and conflicting regulatory systems to address food trade and food safety. This paper uses the exampl...
How can food aid support womens' role in food crises?
- ( ActionAid International , 2007)
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Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their central role in providing solutions is often overlooked. This discussion paper lays out some of...
- Debating the future of the U.S. food aid programme
- ( E.B. Simmons / The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa , 2007)
- The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa convened a workshop in May 2006 to generate a broader dialogue on the future of U.S. food aid. Participants could not reach agreement on four key a...
- GTZ food security lessons learned
- ( M. Metz / Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2006)
- This summary report highlights the major findings of the Lessons Learned Study of the food security policy advisory projects that were conducted in Cambodia , Ethiopia, and Mozambique at the end of 20...
- More pragmatic approach needed for the supply of cash or food aid
- ( U. Gentilini / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme , 2007)
- This paper looks at the various aspects of the cash versus food debate, in order to map out where the controversies lie and to demonstrate the need for a more pragmatic, balanced and context-specific ...
- Review of lessons learnt on recent responses to chronic and transitory hunger and vulnerability
- ( N. Maunder; S. Wiggins / Wahenga.net, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2006)
- What progress has been made in the southern Africa region in understanding, and appropriately responding to, transitory and chronic food insecurity? Emerging from food security crises from 2001-03, th...
