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Linking Emergency Response to Need in “Food Emergencies”

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David Tschirley (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
John Staatz (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
Cynthia Donovan (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)

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When an emergency occurs, agencies must make quick decisions on how to help people facing severe food insecurity. This paper addresses the challenges of designing appropriate responses that are linked to identified needs of affected households and individuals. The primary goal of any response is to save lives now and protect the food security of households and individuals now and in the future. However, instrumental goals and the specific means of achieving them are varied, and must be responsive to the setting in which the emergency occurs. The paper conceives the costs and benefits of a response as the product of how efficiently a resource is delivered (resource transfer efficiency) and the effectiveness of the resource and its mode of delivery in achieving the objectives of the response (resource use efficiency). Those designing emergency response operations need to focus on the combination of these efficiencies,not just on one of them.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Working Papers with number 92.

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Date of creation: 2007
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Keywords: Africa; food security; food policy; food aid; emergency response;

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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  1. Abdulai, Awudu & Barrett, Christopher B. & Hoddinott, John, 2005. "Does food aid Really have disincentive effects? New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 33(10), pages 1689-1704, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Tschirley, David & Donovan, Cynthia & Weber, Michael T., 1996. "Food aid and food markets: lessons from Mozambique," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 21(2), pages 189-209, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. David Tschirley & Danilo Abdula & Michael T. Weber, 2006. "Toward Improved Maize Marketing and Trade Policies to Promote Household Food Security in Central and Southern Mozambique," International Development Collaborative Working Papers MZ-MINAG-RR-60E, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  4. Cynthia Donovan & Megan McGlinchy & John Staatz & David Tschirley, 2006. "Emergency Needs Assessments and the Impact of Food Aid on Local Markets," International Development Working Papers 87, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  5. T.S. Jayne & D. Mather & E. Mghenyi, 2006. "Smallholder Farming Under Increasingly Difficult Circumstances: Policy and Public Investment Priorities for Africa," International Development Policy Syntheses 81, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Lawrence Haddad & Harold Alderman & Simon Appleton & Lina Song & Yisehac Yohannes, 2003. "Reducing Child Malnutrition: How Far Does Income Growth Take Us?," World Bank Economic Review, Oxford University Press, vol. 17(1), pages 107-131, June.
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