Nutritional risk remains evident in almost every crisis-affected or marginalized community.
The number of people reduced to a state of chronic food and livelihood insecurity in the aftermath of crises or in protracted crises continues to grow. Our work in this area will continue to focus on understanding the nutrition and food security needs of people affected by acute crises and will expand to take into account the changing nature of protracted crises and the longer-term marginalization of particular groups and livelihood systems.
Active Research A new program begun in early 2011 will investigate livelihoods, access to basic services, and social protection in fragile and conflict-affected states. Significant improvements have been made in food security analysis in recent years, and the range of potential responses to protect and promote food security has been substantially broadened. But it remains unclear whether these changes have resulted in improved program choice or improved impact. HIV/AIDS has become one of the world’s most serious health and development challenges. Since the first cases were reported in 1981, more than 25 million people have died of AIDS worldwide, and another 33 million are currently living with the virus. The large majority of these people lives in sub-Saharan Africa and suffers the added burden of food insecurity and malnutrition. This study aims to build upon the existing—but limited—literature and will examine the effectiveness of a large-scale food supplementation program for PLWHA in a field setting in Ethiopia.
Previous Research
Recent Publications This research considers “response analysis”: the analytical process by which the objectives and modality of program response options in an emergency are determined. The research question was whether improved analysis drives program response choices in humanitarian food security interventions? By Daniel Maxwell, John Parker and Heather Stobaugh (2012). World Development Special Edition on “Impacts of Innovative Food Assistance Instruments” (forthcoming) By Daniel Maxwell, Luca Russo and Luca Alinovi (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , Vol. 109(31), pp. 12321-12325 By Loek Peeters and Daniel Maxwell (2011). Development in Practice , Vol. 21(4-5), pp. 577-591. By Eileen Kennedy, Patrick Webb, Peter Walker, Edward Saltzman, Daniel Maxwell, Miriam Nelson and Sarah Booth (2011). Food and Nutrition Bulletin , Vol. 31(1), pp. 60-68.