Related Publications: Food Aid
Targeting errors and leakage in a large-scale in-kind transfer program: The food friendly program in Bangladesh as an example
We evaluated a large transfer program in Bangladesh, named the Food Friendly Program (FFP, Khaddo Bandhob Karmasuchi), based on observational data.
Food transfers, electronic food vouchers and child nutritional status among Rohingya children living in Bangladesh
Objective: To examine associations between receipt of an electronic food voucher (e-voucher) compared to food rations on the nutritional status of Rohingya children living in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
2020 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions
The number of people in crisis or worse in 2019 was the highest in the four years of the GRFC's existence, reflecting worsening acute food insecurity and the growing severity of drought and economic shocks as drivers.
Beneficiary views on cash and in-kind payments: Evidence from Ethiopia’s productive safety net programme
Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way?
2019 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions: Update
The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), released annually, provides a consensus-based view of the numbers of people in urgent need of assistance for food, nutrition and livelihood support at the worst point during the previous year.
PROCOMIDA, a food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition program, contributes to postpartum weight retention in Guatemala: A cluster-randomized controlled intervention trial
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs are widely used to reduce household food insecurity and maternal and child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries.
Impact of conflict on agriculture in Mali
Our paper aims to investigating the impact of conflict on population displacement, agricultural production and agricultural assets, and the mitigating effect of food aid. The paper is structured in the following way.
2019 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions
The Global Report on Food Crises is accepted as the reference document on the latest estimates of acute hunger in the world.
Examining perceptions of food assistance on household food security and resilience in Malawi
Malawi is extremely vulnerable to shocks and recurrent food crises (Barrett & Headey 2014). Malawi also suffers from persistently high levels of undernutrition (DHS 2016).
The impact of food assistance on food insecure populations during conflict: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Mali
Mali, a vast landlocked country at the heart of West Africa in the Sahel region, is one of the least developed and most food insecure countries in the world.