Food in emergencies
- Towards effective food security responses in crisis situations
- This brief outlines the FAO's emergency response framework for identifying immediate food security priorities and measures to improve the productivity and resilience of food systems in the medium and long term. The response protocol includes a situation analysis, response analysis, response planning, response implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
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- 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 ...
- Food security in crises
- ( Alinovi L.;Hemrich G.;Russo L. / Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO , 2007)
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Drawing on case studies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia and Sudan, this paper focuses on policy, programming and institutional issues related to addressing food insecurity ...
- Will US biofuel production limit food aid flows to Southern Africa?
- ( C. Grant / Wahenga.net, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2007)
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The production of biofuel has more than doubled in the United States since 2001 while food aid levels have been steadily declining. This brief considers how the global shift to ethanol may affect f...
- 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...
- The aftermath of the 2002 drought in Ethiopia
- ( D.O. Gilligan;J. Hoddinott / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2006)
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This paper explores the presence of persistent impacts of two food aid programmes: the Employment Generation Schemes (EGS) and free food distribution (FFD), which were implemented following the 200...
- 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...
