What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming?
Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable. Using them for politically sensitive decisions, such as where to locate food assistance projects, is likely more acceptable than basing such decisions on obscure and complex or subjective criteria. Coupled with timely infor...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2003
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| description | Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable. Using them for politically sensitive decisions, such as where to locate food assistance projects, is likely more acceptable than basing such decisions on obscure and complex or subjective criteria. Coupled with timely information on the occurrence of events that increase the risk of households facing food shortages, poverty maps can be used to map vulnerability to food insecurity. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1579062025-02-24T06:47:35Z What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming? Benson, Todd poverty research methodology food aid household surveys data collection Poverty maps are easily used, easily understood, and objectively verifiable. Using them for politically sensitive decisions, such as where to locate food assistance projects, is likely more acceptable than basing such decisions on obscure and complex or subjective criteria. Coupled with timely information on the occurrence of events that increase the risk of households facing food shortages, poverty maps can be used to map vulnerability to food insecurity. 2003 2024-10-24T12:52:27Z 2024-10-24T12:52:27Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157906 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155564 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158017 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute World Food Programme Benson, Todd. 2003. What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming? Linking Research and Action: strengthening food assistance and food policy research -- IFPRI/WFP brief. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157906 |
| spellingShingle | poverty research methodology food aid household surveys data collection Benson, Todd What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming? |
| title | What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming? |
| title_full | What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming? |
| title_fullStr | What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming? |
| title_full_unstemmed | What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming? |
| title_short | What can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming? |
| title_sort | what can poverty maps tell us for food assistance programming |
| topic | poverty research methodology food aid household surveys data collection |
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