Food security in protracted crisis situations: Issues and challenges: Issues and challenges

Russo, Luca; Hemrich, Günter; Alinovi, Luca; Melvin, D.

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“…525) define a protracted crisis as a 'situation in which large sections of the population face acute threats to life and livelihoods over an extended period (years or even decades), with the state and other governance institutions failing to provide adequate levels of protection or support'. The term was introduced to highlight the protracted nature of situations, which were previously referred to as 'complex (political) emergencies'; in recent years, it has been linked also to concepts of 'fragile' or 'failed states' (Russo et al, 2008). Providing clear-cut definitions of these concepts remains problematic, but they are a useful, shorthand expression for a range of humanitarian crises, characterised by their political, multicausal (in contrast with mono-causal natural disasters), violent, and protracted nature (Goodhand and Hulme, 1999;Duffield, 2001;Schafer, 2002).…”

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“…Food insecurity is one of the main characteristics of such protracted crises (Russo et al, 2008). Three paradigms have set the debate on food insecurity (Devereux, 2000):…”

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“…The failure of food security and livelihood interventions to understand properly the broader conflict environment in which they occur has been identified as a key gap in humanitarian responses to protracted crises (Pingali, Alinovi, and Sutton, 2005;Lautze and Raven-Roberts, 2006;Russo et al, 2008;Jaspars and Maxwell, 2009). This implies that most interventions are unable to tackle the impact of the broader political economy of conflict on food security issues.…”

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Livelihoods, power, and food insecurity: adaptation of social capital portfolios in protracted crises—case study Burundi

2012

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The failure of food security and livelihood interventions to adapt to conflict settings remains a key challenge in humanitarian responses to protracted crises. This paper proposes a social capital analysis to address this policy gap, adding a political economy dimension on food security and conflict to the actor-based livelihood framework. A case study of three hillsides in north Burundi provides an ethnographic basis for this hypothesis. While relying on a theoretical framework in which different combinations of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking) account for a diverse range of outcomes, the findings offer empirical insights into how social capital portfolios adapt to a protracted crisis. It is argued that these social capital adaptations have the effect of changing livelihood policies, institutions, and processes (PIPs), and clarify the impact of the distribution of power and powerlessness on food security issues. In addition, they represent a solid way of integrating political economy concerns into the livelihood framework.

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“…Food insecurity is one of the main characteristics of such protracted crises (Russo et al, 2008). Three paradigms have set the debate on food insecurity (Devereux, 2000):…”

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Livelihoods, power, and food insecurity: adaptation of social capital portfolios in protracted crises—case study Burundi

2012

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“…These discussions were partly triggered by observations that aid-when delivered without taking into account local realities-increases risk to harm and undermines local capacities of populations and institutions (Anderson 1996;Anderson and Woodrow 1993). They also expressed an increasing ambition among humanitarian agencies to extend their mandate, aiming to do as much good as they could to link their life-saving efforts to development (Russo et al 2008).…”

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From crisis to development: the policy and practice of agricultural service provision in northern Uganda

Wairimu

Christoplos

Hilhorst³

2015

Agric Hum Values

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This paper critically evaluates the transition from crisis to development in northern Uganda from the perspective of agricultural service provision. It contributes to debates on how efforts to link relief to rehabilitation and development may bypass the underlying challenges in linking humanitarian aid to prevailing national development policies and structures. This paper is based on research into agricultural services undertaken in Pader district, northern Uganda, between 2010 and 2012. It studied the interplay between humanitarian interventions and the parallel development of the government's agricultural departments and services in northern Uganda. The article brings out how Ugandan agricultural policies do not suit the post-conflict realities of northern Uganda. The evolving policies affect power relations and processes of inclusion and exclusion in northern Uganda. As a result, at the time that the government is ready to integrate northern Uganda into the mainstream development of agricultural policy, the gap between addressing humanitarian needs and development has become larger.

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“…6 The overall objective of LSIC was the support of sustainable livelihood strategies through agricultural production, livestock restocking, and natural resource management. The projects were implemented in the north of Burundi between 2005 and 2007, and are illustrative for reconstruction efforts in Burundi : livelihood interventions are identified as appropriate instruments to implement post-conflict reconstruction policies in protracted crisis situations (Russo et al 2008) ; their focus on food security aligned well with the Burundian context of protracted food insecurity and the critical role of the agricultural sector in the livelihoods of Burundian households. Because of the Consortium construction, all three NGO projects had a similar focus.…”

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Bridging community associations in post-conflict Burundi: the difficult merging of social capital endowments and new ‘institutional settings’

Vervisch

Titeca

2010

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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A B S T R A C TAssociations have been labelled the main 'building blocks ' for creating social capital. It has been argued that community associations need to transform ' bonding ' into 'bridging' ties to ' reach out ' while also creating 'linking' ties to ' scale up '. External development actions follow a reverse logic in promoting these associations : they assume that linking ties with the external intervener will reinforce prior social capital endowments. This article highlights the inherent difficulties of such a 'social engineering ' approach in the context of post-conflict reconstruction, describing three development interventions in the north of Burundi. It defines the process of ' institutional syncretism ' -merging local with global institutional settings -as a key element to social capital building. The findings illustrate how the three interventions failed to reach this objective, and * We wish to thank Koen Vlassenroot and Johan Braeckman for their comments on an earlier version of the paper.

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Food security in protracted crisis situations: Issues and challenges: Issues and challenges

Cited by 5 publications

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Livelihoods, power, and food insecurity: adaptation of social capital portfolios in protracted crises—case study Burundi

Livelihoods, power, and food insecurity: adaptation of social capital portfolios in protracted crises—case study Burundi

From crisis to development: the policy and practice of agricultural service provision in northern Uganda

Bridging community associations in post-conflict Burundi: the difficult merging of social capital endowments and new ‘institutional settings’

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