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Feeding Inequalities: Food Aid and Food Insecurity in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Kral, Courtney E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398352485

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2014, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Political Science (Arts and Sciences).
A complex understanding of food insecurity reveals that emergency food aid efforts often contribute to this problem rather than alleviating it. Both immediate response programs and long-term recovery programs carried out by the United States and the United Nations in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake focused disproportionately on making food accessible and available in the short-term without appreciating that food's proper and stable long-term utilization. This thesis explores the ways in which the NGO-based model of aid delivery created during the era of development aid in the late 20th Century carried over into emergency efforts and threatened Haiti's future food security. I analyze a variety of USAID, UN FAO, and WFP documents on both development and emergency aid to Haiti as well as the broader literature on food security and food aid. I conclude that donors ought to shift away from heavily NGO-dependent giving and give long-term impact more serious consideration in order to improve food aid in future emergency responses.
Debra Thompson, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jim Mosher, PhD (Committee Member)
Andrew Ross, PhD (Committee Member)
127 p.
International Relations; Political Science
Food Aid; Haiti; USAID; Food Insecurity; Emergency Aid; UN FAO

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  • Kral, C. E. (2014). Feeding Inequalities: Food Aid and Food Insecurity in Post-Earthquake Haiti [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398352485

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kral, Courtney. Feeding Inequalities: Food Aid and Food Insecurity in Post-Earthquake Haiti. 2014. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398352485.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kral, Courtney. "Feeding Inequalities: Food Aid and Food Insecurity in Post-Earthquake Haiti." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398352485

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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