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Thought for Food: Suggestions for a systematised approach to emergency food distribution operations
Author(s) -
ELDRIDGE CHRIS
Publication year - 1989
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.1467-7717.1989.tb00704.x
Subject(s) - emergency relief , food distribution , distribution (mathematics) , destinations , phase (matter) , emergency management , operations research , operations management , business , engineering , medicine , geography , economics , economic growth , tourism , mathematics , mathematical analysis , chemistry , pathology , organic chemistry , archaeology
The following paper is a synopsis of a longer report, under the same name, aimed at the people responsible for implementing relief food operations. The report attempts to fill a perceived need for a manual covering the organisation of relief operations from planning to evaluation stages. Following the initial planning phase, the distribution of relief food can be viewed as a logistics operation sandwiched between two phases of data acquisition ‐ one before the distribution of relief to targetted destinations, and the other after the distribution, to assess its efficacy and to identify problems.