Keyword Archives: food security
Response Analysis: What Drives Program Choice?
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?
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: food security, livelihoods
What Drives Program Choice in Food Security Crises? Examing the ‘Reponse Analysis” Question
By Daniel Maxwell, John Parker and Heather Stobaugh (2012). World Development Special Edition on “Impacts of Innovative Food Assistance Instruments” (forthcoming)
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: food security
Constraints to Addressing Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises
By Daniel Maxwell, Luca Russo and Luca Alinovi (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , Vol. 109(31), pp. 12321-12325
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: food security
Characteristics and Strategies Favoring Sustained Food Access during Guinea’s Food Price Crisis
By Loek Peeters and Daniel Maxwell (2011). Development in Practice , Vol. 21(4-5), pp. 577-591.
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: food security
Fit for Purpose? Rethinking Food Security Responses in Humanitarian Crises
By Daniel Maxwell, Patrick Webb, Jennifer Coates and James Wirth (2012). Food Policy , Vol. 35(2), pp. 91-97.
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: food security
Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis
By Barrett Christopher, Robert Bell, Erin Lentz and Daniel Maxwell (2009). Food Security , Vol. 1 (2) pp.151-168.
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: food security
Linking Poor Rural Households to Microfinance and Markets in Ethiopia
The USAID funded PSNP Plus project ‘Linking Poor Rural Households to Microfinance and Markets in Ethiopia’ ended in December 2011. The PSNP Plus was designed as a three-year project in support of the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), which provides food and or cash to chronically food insecure households in exchange for labor on rural infrastructure projects, or direct transfers to households unable to participate in physical labor activities. The overall goal of the PSNP Plus was to build household resilience and household assets through market linkages and access to microfinance this goal being directly linked to the objective of facilitating the graduation of households from the PSNP and out of chronic food insecurity.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: Assets, food security, Graduation, livelihoods, microfinance, Poverty, PSNP, Resilience, Safety Nets, Value Chains
Rapid Review of the Cash-for-Work and Natural Resource Management Components of the RAIN Project
The project Revitalizing Agricultural/Pastoral Incomes and New Markets (RAIN) is a three‐year project implemented by Mercy Corps and Save the Children UK (SCUK) in parts of Somali and Oromiya Regions in Ethiopia. The project aims to protect, build and diversify assets in food insecure households. The donor is the Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the project budget is US$17 million.
Posted in Briefing Papers
Keywords: food security, livelihoods, Pastoralism and Policy in Ethiopia
Addressing Integrated Coordination in Food Security Crises
In May 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) formally launched the global Food Security Cluster (FSC) as the UN’s global mechanism for coordinating food security responses in emergencies. The creation of the global cluster coincides with a period in which the number of food security actors has continued to grow, the operating environment has become more complex, and the range of responses has required greater levels of skill in analysis, planning, implementation and monitoring. All of this underscores the need for greater coordination.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: food security, Food Security Cluster, programming
Achieving Food and Nutrition Security
Calls have been made recently for new approaches to the design and implementation of interventions aimed at achieving household food security; approaches that address more than just food availability by integrating actions enhancing food access and utilization as well. But what exactly should be ‘integrated’ and how? This report represents a lessons learned assessment of an integrated agriculture, nutrition, and health intervention implemented in Malawi in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The review contributes to the ongoing international search for best practices in programming for food security.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: food security, nutrition