“Too big to fail”: the resilience and entrenchment of food aid through food banks in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic
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DOI: 10.1007/s12571-022-01260-5
Abstract: This paper aims to better understand the resilience and further entrenchment of food aid through food banks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the first months of the pandemic in the Netherlands, concerns quickly rose about the… read more here.
Keywords: food; resilience; aid food; food aid ... See more keywords
“Food aid is killing Himalayan farms”. Debunking the false dependency narrative in Karnali, Nepal
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.001
Abstract: Food aid constitutes a heated debate in development discourse. In Nepal’s Himalayan region, it is blamed for aggravating food insecurity by inducing dependency and negatively affecting local agriculture and diet patterns. Transferring large amount of… read more here.
Keywords: food; aid killing; dependency narrative; aid ... See more keywords
New and old forms of poverty in Spain: exploring food consumption during the crisis
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DOI: 10.1108/bfj-07-2019-0527
Abstract: The economic crisis has renewed public debate in Europe about food poverty, drawing attention to the insecurity suffered by some social groups that are not apparent in official surveys. The purpose of this paper is… read more here.
Keywords: food poverty; food; food aid; crisis ... See more keywords
U.S. food aid and American exports to recipient countries during the Cold War
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DOI: 10.1111/agec.12450
Abstract: In this article, we test to what extent the food aid granted by the U.S. during the Cold War was strategically motivated and used to promote U.S. interests. Using the data for the period 1971–1990,… read more here.
Keywords: cold war; aid; food aid; recipient countries ... See more keywords
Food Aid Technology
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DOI: 10.1145/3415205
Abstract: Over half of Syrian refugee households in Lebanon are food insecure with some reliant on an electronic voucher (e-voucher) system for food aid. The interplay between the digitisation of food aid, within the socio-technical context… read more here.
Keywords: food; voucher system; aid; food aid ... See more keywords