Food Aid in Sudan

In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis. This was soon followed by a comprehensive food aid programme, at the time the largest of its kind. Yet by 2014, international agencies found they still had limited access to much of the populati [...]
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In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis. This was soon followed by a comprehensive food aid programme, at the time the largest of its kind. Yet by 2014, international agencies found they still had limited access to much of the population, with the Sudanese regime effectively controlling who received aid. As a result, chronic malnutrition endured. This book argues that the situation in Sudan is emblematic of a far wider problem. Analysing the history of food aid in the country over fifty years, Jaspars shows that such aid has rarely had its intended effect, instead often serving to enrich local regimes and the private sector while leaving war-torn populations in a state of permanent emergency. Drawing on her decades of experience as an aid worker and researcher in the region, and extensive interviews with all those involved in the food aid process, Jaspars brings together two of the key topics of our time: the failure of the humanitarian system to respond to today's crises, and the crisis in the global food system.