Rethinking Food Security in Humanitarian Response: Paper presented to the food security forum, Rome, April 16 - 18, 2008

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Author(s)
Maxwell, Daniel
Webb, Patrick
Coates, Jennifer
Wirth, James
Publication date
2008-04-16
Subject
Conflict and disasters
Food and livelihoods
Keywords
Conflict
Disasters
Food security

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
CARE International
Feinstein International Center
Document type
Research report
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This paper serves as a background document to help frame discussion at the Food Security Forum in Rome, April 2008. It focuses on policy and institutional reform issues centered on the links between chronic and transitory crises. The first part of the paper provides an overview of trends and future challenges. The second considers effectiveness of the ﾓhumanitarian systemﾔ in addressing food insecurity and whether the current institutional set-up is fit for service. The third part examines links between ﾓchronicﾔ and ﾓtransitoryﾔ food insecurity, and whether current approaches to prevention and response appropriately bridge these two forms of vulnerability. A concluding section highlights key issues, raising questions on gaps in the humanitarian system's analytical capacity, its programmatic practices, and on food security policy more broadly.
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82
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http://hdl.handle.net/10546/112335
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/rethinking-food-security-in-humanitarian-response-paper-presented-to-the-food-s-112335
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