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Food Security in Protracted Crises: Building More Effective Policy Frameworks
Author(s) -
Flores Margarita,
Khwaja Yasmeen,
White Philip
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.0361-3666.2005.00283.x
Subject(s) - poison control , food security , suicide prevention , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , business , environmental health , computer security , medical emergency , risk analysis (engineering) , forensic engineering , environmental planning , engineering , computer science , medicine , environmental science , biology , ecology , agriculture , pathology
This paper considers the principal elements that underpin policy frameworks for supporting food security in protracted crisis contexts. It argues that maintaining the food entitlements of crisis‐affected populations must extend beyond interventions to ensure immediate human survival. A ‘policy gap’ exists in that capacities for formulating policy responses to tackle the different dimensions of food insecurity in complex, fluid crisis situations tend to be weak. As a result, standardised, short‐term intervention designs are created that fall short of meeting the priority needs of affected populations in the short and long term and only partially exploit the range of policy options available. The paper discusses key attributes of agency frameworks that could support more effective policy processes to address longer term as well as immediate food security needs. Additionally, it points to some main challenges likely to be encountered in developing such frameworks and, with the participation of beneficiaries, translating them into effective action.