Food Aid In Sudan

Author : Susanne Jaspars
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786992116

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Food Aid in Sudan by Susanne Jaspars Pdf

In 2004, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the largest in the world. Yet by 2014, while the crisis continued, international agencies found they had limited access to much of the population, with the Sudanese regime effectively controlling who received aid. As a result, acute malnutrition remains persistently high. Food Aid in Sudan argues that the situation in Sudan is emblematic of a far wider problem. Analysing the history of food aid in the country over fifty years, Jaspars shows that such aid often serves to enrich local regimes and the private sector while leaving war-torn populations in a state of permanent emergency. Drawing on her decades of experience as an aid worker and researcher in the region, and extensive interviews with workers in the food aid process, Jaspars brings together two key topics of our time: the failure of the humanitarian system to respond to today’s crises, and the crisis in the global food system. Essential reading for students and researchers across the social sciences studying the nature and effectiveness of contemporary humanitarianism, development and international aid.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Famines
ISBN : IND:30000068975055

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Creating Famine and Prolonging War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susanne Sophia Elisabeth Jaspars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:976447065

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Food Aid, Power, and Profit by Susanne Sophia Elisabeth Jaspars Pdf

Author : Simon Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015021878411

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To Cure All Hunger by Simon Maxwell Pdf

Few countries face as grim a prospect of food insecurity as the Sudan - bankrupt, at civil war, and ravaged by drought. To Cure All Hunger looks at the scope and the content of appropriate interventions, growth, income, and command over food security. A close study of the causes, dimensions and consequences of food insecurity in Sudan is instructive, not just for policy in that country but also for food insecurity analysis elsewhere. Studying an extreme case throws up challenges to the conventional wisdom which resonate across less difficult cases. The contributors to this volume bring a wide range of skills and many years' experience to the study. Their focus is mainly on north Sudan and not on the war-torn south. Nevertheless, they do indeed challenge the conventional wisdom, at least in Sudan.

Author : Aiga Stokenberga,Maria Catalina Ochoa
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464816963

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Unlocking the Lower Skies by Aiga Stokenberga,Maria Catalina Ochoa Pdf

This book explores the economic and broader societal rationale for using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or “drone†? technologies as a complement to the current transport and logistics systems in several use cases in East Africa. The specific use cases examined include medical goods deliveries, food aid delivery, land mapping and risk assessment, agriculture, and transport and energy infrastructure inspection. Across these applications, the case for using UAVs is examined within the context of logistics objectives—total operating costs, speed, availability, and flexibility—as well as human, or societal, objectives. In the public health use case, as more low- and middle-income countries explore opportunities to improve efficiency and performance in their health supply chains and diagnostics networks, they face myriad choices about how best to use UAVs to improve product availability and public health outcomes and to reach the last mile. The high-level findings from this analysis are that, if examining commodity categories individually and looking exclusively at costs, delivery with UAVs in general is still more expensive for most categories. Although the cost is still higher, the most cost-effective use case examples include the transport of laboratory samples to selected destinations and delivery of life-saving items and blood. However, “layering†? several use cases can provide efficiencies and cost savings by allocating fixed costs across a greater number of flights and maximizing capacity and time utilization. From the perspective of public decision-makers, the cost effectiveness of UAVs cannot be analyzed without looking at the public health benefits, which may be substantial. Drone application in the other use cases examined in this book, such as mapping, risk assessment, and agriculture, is relatively more common than cargo drone operations, and the existing pilot initiatives in East Africa have delivered impressive results for speed and quality (precision). Food aid delivery by drones is still mostly at a planning, rather than implementation, stage. Drone applications are rapidly evolving, and several use cases could gain impact and scale over the coming years.

Author : Luca Alinovi,Günter Hemrich,Luca Russo
Publisher : Practical Action
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Case studies
ISBN : 1853396605

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Beyond Relief by Luca Alinovi,Günter Hemrich,Luca Russo Pdf

In many countries, prolonged conflicts result in food emergencies that recur over years or even decades. Initial humanitarian relief efforts are rarely replaced by programmes that offer a longer-term perspective on food security. This book provides examples of opportunities to bridge the gap between emergency relief and longer term developmental approaches, which can help us rethink how to support food security in protracted crises. Somalia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo have all been affected by severe protracted crises. For the first time, evidence and in-depth analysis from these countries sheds light on how to support the livelihoods of local populations. Using concrete examples, Beyond Relief demonstrates how food security means different things in different contexts while also advocating a crosscutting learning process for longer-term approaches to protracted crisis. Published in association with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Author : Tesfaye Teklu,Joachim Von Braun,Elsayed Ali Ahmed Zaki
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896290914

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Drought and Famine Relationships in Sudan by Tesfaye Teklu,Joachim Von Braun,Elsayed Ali Ahmed Zaki Pdf

Famine debate, conceptual framework, and study approach; Record of drought and household-level consequences in western Sudan; Drought-production relationships; Prices and market disconnections during famines; Implications of drought and famine for consumption and nutrition; Past policies and programs for coping with drought and famine; Policy conclusions.

Author : Francis Mading Deng,Larry Minear
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002336910

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The Challenges of Famine Relief by Francis Mading Deng,Larry Minear Pdf

The Challenges of Famine Relief focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in the 1980s - the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91.

Author : Susanne Jaspars
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786992109

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Food Aid in Sudan by Susanne Jaspars Pdf

In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the largest in the world. Yet by 2014, while the crisis continued, international agencies found they had limited access to much of the population, with the Sudanese regime effectively controlling who received aid. As a result, acute malnutrition remains persistently high. Food Aid in Sudan argues that the situation in Sudan is emblematic of a far wider problem. Analysing the history of food aid in the country over fifty years, Jaspars shows that such aid often serves to enrich local regimes and the private sector while leaving war-torn populations in a state of permanent emergency. Drawing on her decades of experience as an aid worker and researcher in the region, and extensive interviews with workers in the food aid process, Jaspars brings together two key topics of our time: the failure of the humanitarian system to respond to today's crises, and the crisis in the global food system. Essential reading for students and researchers across the social sciences studying the nature and effectiveness of contemporary humanitarianism, development and international aid.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422314642

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Foreign Assistance: U.S. Agencies Face Challenges to Improving the Efficiency & Effectiveness of Food Aid by Anonim Pdf

Author : Luka Biong Deng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Famines
ISBN : UOM:39015048574217

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Famine in the Sudan by Luka Biong Deng Pdf

Author : Dorosh, Paul A.,Babu, Suresh Chandra
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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From famine to food security: Lessons for building resilient food systems by Dorosh, Paul A.,Babu, Suresh Chandra Pdf

Armed conflict combined with prolonged drought has put about 20 million people at risk of starvation and death in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, and northern Nigeria. The international development and aid communities are caught between the enormity of the humanitarian crisis, which demands an estimated US$4.4 billion to address, and the lack of resources forthcoming from donors. Food crises, famine-like conditions, and famines recur with regularity in many developing countries (see Box 1 for definitions of terms). Although the current famines can be largely attributed to conflicts, chronic food insecurity also threatens several other African countries. For example, 6.7 million people were affected by Malawi’s largest food crisis in decades in 2016–2017, and the country remains vulnerable to weather extremes that could create food emergencies (World Bank 2017). In Kenya, food security has deteriorated since the end of 2016 and half of its 47 counties face food shortages (Chatterjee and Mengistu 2017). How do countries prepare to prevent shocks—natural and man-made—from generating food crises? What does it take to break the cycle of chronic food insecurity and build resilient food systems? How have some countries managed to prevent drought from leading to famine? In this brief, we document lessons for building resilient food systems to prevent future famines.

Author : Global Health Subcommittee On Africa, Global Huma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1547030372

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East Africa's Quiet Famine by Global Health Subcommittee On Africa, Global Huma Pdf

According to estimates by the United Nations, more than 28 million people in east Africa need immediate food aid. Three countries in the region have emergency level food aid needs-Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. Meanwhile, areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda also face crisis level hunger with some households already in emergency conditions. In Somalia, at least 6.2 million people, more half that country's population, need food assistance. In South Sudan, nearly two-thirds of the population requires assistance, and 4.9 million people, about 40 percent of the population, face severe life-threatening hunger. In Sudan more than 5.8 million Sudanese are believed to require assistance, 3.3 million of them in still-embattled Darfur states. The devastating impact of the current famine isn't confined to the hardest hit drought areas. Uganda itself, struggling with the effects of drought in some areas, has had to contend with nearly 800,000 refugees from South Sudan. In 2011, the first U.N.-declared famine since the 1980s occurred in east Africa, affecting more than 10 million people. Six years ago, there was great attention given to that famine. The current famine, despite reaching crisis levels, has not garnered the attention that it deserves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105071585710

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Development Co-operation, Sudan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis M. Deng,Larry Minear
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815719748

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The Challenges of Famine Relief by Francis M. Deng,Larry Minear Pdf

For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil strife and debilitating economic problems, has caused widespread human suffering. The Sudan illustrates the proverbial worst-case scenario in which urgent food needs have been denied, food has been used as a weapon, and outside assistance has been obstructed. The Challenges of Famine Relief focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in the 1980s—the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91. Francis Deng and Larry Minear analyze the historical and political setting and the response by Sudan authorities and the international community. The book outlines four problem areas exemplified in the response to each crisis: the external nature of famine relief, the relationship between relief activities and endemic problems, the coordination of such activities, and the ambivalence of the results. The authors identify the many difficulties inherent in providing emergency relief to populations caught in circumstances of life-threatening famine. They show how such famine emergencies reflect the most extreme breakdown of social order and present the most compelling imperatives for international action. Deng and Minear also discuss how the international community, alerted by the media and mobilized by the Ethiopian famine, moved to fill the moral void left by the government and how outside organizations worked together to pressure Sudan's political authorities to be more responsive to these tragedies. Looking ahead, the authors highlight the implications for future involvement in humanitarian initiatives in a new world order. As recent developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union demonstrate, such humanitarian challenges of global dimensions are no longer confined to third world countries. As the international community apportions limited resources among a growing number of such challenges, more effective responses to crises such as those described in this book are imperative.