Search Results - "humanitarian"

Food Aid Sharing and Resilience. The role of collectivity and connectivity in drought-affected pastoralist systems in Ethiopia by Flintan, Fiona E., Anbacha, Abiyot, Ebro, Abule, Eba, Bedasa, Disasa, H., Aden, H., Abdulatif, M., Assefa, A.

“…Policymakers must prioritize reinforcing community networks to ensure effective humanitarian responses that are culturally sensitive and community centered.…”
Get full text

Barriers to developing social protection programs with adaptation considerations: The case of Jordan by Meddings, George, Desai, Bina, Jaskolski, Martina, Schapendonk, Frans, Läderach, Peter

“…Concurrently, the country is home to an expanse of social protection and humanitarian assistance programs, varying in delivery modality and responsible actors. …”
Get full text

Compounding stresses confront rural households in southern Malawi by Upton, Joanna, Duchoslav, Jan, Tennant, Elizabeth

“…The Southern Region is home to 44% of Malawi’s population, but to 56% of those in need of humanitarian assistance. More people in the Southern Region are in danger of going hungry in the coming months than in the Central and Northern regions combined. …”
Get full text

Impact of Ethiopia’s 2015 drought on child undernutrition by Hirvonen, Kalle, Sohnesen, Thomas Pave, Bundervoet, Tom

“…Moreover, the share of households receiving humanitarian aid doubled in drought-affected areas. Together, these findings highlight the role of road infrastructure in contributing to resilience as well as the efficiency of the humanitarian system in delivering and targeting aid in the country.…”
Get full text

Stability-and-Peace Accelerator for Food-Land and Water Systems Actors in Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings by Dahl, Hauke, Jacobs-Mata, Inga, Kamanda, Josey, Michalscheck, Mirja, Nkosi, Mahlatse

“…Ultimately, accelerator enables food and nutrition security, climate resilience, social cohesion and sustainability in emergency and humanitarian settings…”
Get full text

Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa by Davies, J., Robinson, Lance W., Ericksen, Polly J.

“…Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. …”
Get full text

2022 Global food report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions: Mid-year update by Food Security Information Network, Vos, Rob, Rice, Brendan, Minot, Nicholas

“…According to the GRFC 2022 Mid-Year Update, the number of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent – that is the number of people requiring urgent humanitarian assistance – is forecast to reach up to 205.1 million in 45 of the 53 countries/territories included in the GRFC 2022, published in May 2022. …”
Get full text

Nexus thinking as a force for peace by McCartney, Matthew P., Ringler, Claudia

“…Global water, food, and humanitarian crises have reached near-unprecedented levels. …”
Get full text

Investing in innovative food systems solutions in challenging contexts by World Food Programme, African Development Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Humanitarian agencies are in a race against time to save lives in contexts where economies have collapsed as hunger is aggravated by conflicts and extreme weather, among other factors. …”
Get full text

Can unconditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of civil conflict on acute child malnutrition in Yemen?: Evidence from the national social protection monitoring survey by Ecker, Olivier, Maystadt, Jean-François, Guo, Zhe

“…While the recent agreements are an important, first step to tackle the humanitarian crisis, the road to a sustainable peace agreement will certainly be long and bumpy. …”
Get full text

Using weather index insurance to improve drought response for famine prevention by Chantarat, S., Barrett, Christopher B., Mude, Andrew G., Turvey, C.G.

“…This paper briefly outlines how donors and operational agencies might use weather index insurance for famine prevention, enumerates key prospective benefits from such products, and then illustrates the possibilities with an application to the arid lands of northern Kenya, an area of recurring severe droughts that elicit massive international humanitarian responses.…”
Get full text

The impact of food assistance on food insecure populations during conflict: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Mali by Tranchant, Jean-Pierre, Gelli, Aulo, Bliznashka, Lilia, Diallo, Amadou Sekou, Sacko, Moussa, Assima, Amidou, Siegel, Emily H., Aurino, Elisabetta, Masset, Edoardo

“…In this study, we exploit data from a unique pre-crisis baseline to evaluate the impact of humanitarian aid on the food security of rural populations.…”
Get full text

Investing in innovative food systems solutions in challenging contexts: A food supply chain mapping and analysis by World Food Programme, International Food Policy Research Institute, African Development Bank

“…Humanitarian agencies are in a race against time to save lives in contexts where economies have collapsed as hunger is aggravated by conflicts and extreme weather, among other factors. …”
Get full text

Persistent myths about emergency seed aid by Sperling, L., McGrath, S.

“…Seed interventions are the major agricultural response during emergency and recovery phases of humanitarian relief. They are implemented by diverse agencies, and widely promoted: for instance the FAO alone managed 400 such projects between 2003 and 2005. …”
Get full text

2023 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions by Food Security Information Network, Vos, Rob, Rice, Brendan

“…Founded by the European Union, FAO and WFP at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the Global Network Against Food Crises is an alliance of humanitarian and development actors working together to prevent, prepare for, and respond to food crises and support the Sustainable Development Goal to End Hunger (SDG 2). …”
Get full text

2022 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions by Food Security Information Network, Vos, Rob, Rice, Brendan, Minot, Nicholas

“…Founded by the European Union, FAO and WFP at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the Global Network Against Food Crises is an alliance of humanitarian and development actors working together to prevent, prepare for, and respond to food crises and support the Sustainable Development Goal to End Hunger (SDG 2). …”
Get full text

2021 global report on food crises: September 2021 update by Food Security Information Network (FSIN), Global Network Against Food Crises, Vos, Rob, Minot, Nicholas, Rice, Brendan

“…Founded by the European Union, FAO and WFP at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the Global Network Against Food Crises is an alliance of humanitarian and development actors working together to prevent, prepare for, and respond to food crises and support the Sustainable Development Goal to End Hunger (SDG 2). …”
Get full text

2021 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions by Food Security Information Network (FSIN), Vos, Rob, Rice, Brendan, Minot, Nicholas

“…Founded by the European Union, FAO and WFP at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the Global Network Against Food Crises is an alliance of humanitarian and development actors working together to prevent, prepare for, and respond to food crises and support the Sustainable Development Goal to End Hunger (SDG 2). …”
Get full text

Water security and climate resilience in the Somali Region, Ethiopia: an assessment of the vulnerabilities of refugee and host communities by Singh, Radhika, Mekuria, Wolde, Dessalegn, Mengistu, Melaku, Dagmawi, Adam-Bradford, A., Ruckstuhl, Sandra

“…Water supply and irrigation systems developed by UNHCR and other humanitarian organizations suffer from weak value chains, high running costs, and overburdened infrastructure/equipment, hence are unable to respond to the needs of growing populations. …”
Get full text

Global report on food crises 2018 by Russo, Luca

“…Luca Russo SPECIAL EVENT Washington, DC Launch--2018 Global Report on Food Crises: From Humanitarian to Developmental Responses Co-Organized by IFPRI and Food Security Information Network (FSIN) APR 27, 2018 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT…”
Get full text