Emergency Needs Assessments and the Impact of Food Aid on Local Markets

Cynthia Donovan (), Megan McGlinchy, John Staatz and David Tschirley ()

No 54566, Food Security International Development Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: This desk study is designed to assist WFP and other humanitarian agencies in understanding markets as they relate to emergencies, particularly the assessment of the impacts of emergencies and food aid deliveries on local commodity markets. In this work, we will focus on the impact of actual food commodity distribution on commodity markets, one of the most common emergency response alternatives. However, the report widens the debate to assist humanitarian agencies in seeing the link between actions taken by and with households and individuals during and after an emergency, the effects those actions have on markets, but also effects that market structure and performance may have in mitigating food insecurity.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 71
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.54566

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