Food commodity pipeline management in transitional settings: challenges and lessons learned from the first USAID food development program in South Sudan

Abstract

Efficient and reliable commodity transport is critical to effective food assistance in development settings as well as in emergency situations. Increasing the flexibility of U.S. government Title II food assistance program procurement regulations and more comprehensive contingency planning could improve the effectiveness of these programs in non-emergency settings with high food insecurity and political volatility.

Making the most of food aid to help prevent child and maternal deaths

“…As a continuing resource for improved nutrition and food security, food aid needs to work better and differently. In their paper in this issue, Tappis et al 2 offer a case study of some of the challenges in a U.S. food aid program. The authors document the logistic and management experiences that faced NGOs implementing a development, or non-emergency, food aid program in South Sudan both before and after independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011.…”

“…The recent series on nutrition in The Lancet, 1 together with a paper by Tappis et al 2 in this issue of GHSP, provide an opportunity to reflect on the great progress in nutrition that has been achieved in the past few decades. Child survival and nutrition statistics tell a compelling story of both the accomplishments and also the challenges.…”