Food Scarcity and Famine

Assessment and response

Helen Young

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Oxfam Professional
15 December 1992

Famine; Aid & relief programmes

Series: Practical Health Guides

Over the years Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The Practical Health Guides draw on this experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision of health care and services in developing countries.

Where people are suffering from food scarcity or famine, the obvious response seems to be food aid. This may indeed be necessary, but handing out food may not be the best solution, and other actions could be equally urgent, such as public health or income support measures. This book provides a new approach to assessing and responding to situations of food scarcity and gives a comprehensive explanation of how to assess these situations in order to judge which interventions will be most effective.

This book offers advice on carrying out initial assessments and nutrition surveys, and emphasises the importance of finding out the underlying causes of food scarcity by seeking out the views of those affected. Food distribution, and how to target the people who need it most, supplementary and therapeutic feeding programmes, are also covered.

By: Helen Young
Imprint: Oxfam Professional
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: No. 7
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9780855981457
ISBN 10: 0855981458
Series: Practical Health Guides
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 15 December 1992
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helen leads the Darfur Livelihoods Program at the Center, which combines research, capacity development and institutional change. As a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, at Sussex, she reviewed nutritional assessment and response to situations of food insecurity and famine.

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