Refugees, food security, and resilience in host communities: Transitioning from humanitarian assistance to development in protracted refugee situations

Athur Mabiso, Jean-François Maystadt, Joachim Vandercasteelen and Kalle Hirvonen

No 2, 2020 conference papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: An emerging literature shows how the mass arrival of refugees induces both short- and long-term consequences to hosting countries. The main contribution of this paper is to conduct a selective review of this literature from a food-security and resilience perspective. First, the paper identifies a number of direct and indirect food-security consequences of hosting refugees. It provides a conceptual framework for discussing these various channels through which refugee inflows influence food security in the hosting countries. Second, the literature review finds that the impact of large-scale influxes of refugees on host communities and on their food security is unequally distributed among the local population.

Keywords: Refugees; food security; Food aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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