Rethinking Food Aid in a Chronically Food-Insecure Region: Effects of Food Aid on Local Power Relations and Vulnerability Patterns in Northwestern Nepal
dc.contributor.author | Nagoda, Sigrid | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Nepal | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-01T09:29:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-01T09:29:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-07-31 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13132 | |
dc.description.abstract | The impacts of repeated food aid programmes on households’ livelihood strategies and capacity to adapt to stressors such as climate change were investigated in the chronically food-insecure district of Humla in Nepal, using food security as an entry point for analysing vulnerability. The study questions food aid as a tool to reduce vulnerability, and argues that it may indirectly impede the enhancement of food security by reinforcing inequalities and local power structures that drive household vulnerability. The article concludes that a refocus addressing the social dynamics that shape local vulnerability patterns is needed before food aid can contribute to enhancing households’ long-term adaptive capacity. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;48.4 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence, which permits downloading and sharing provided the original authors and source are credited – but the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Climate Change | en |
dc.subject | Nutrition | en |
dc.title | Rethinking Food Aid in a Chronically Food-Insecure Region: Effects of Food Aid on Local Power Relations and Vulnerability Patterns in Northwestern Nepal | en |
dc.type | Series paper (IDS) | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Resource Politics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2017.156 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-07-31 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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