Creating New Links Between Agriculture and Food Aid: New Perspectives from France

Labarre, Matthieu Duboys de; Carimentrand, Aurélie; Crenn, Chantal; Delavigne, Anne-Hélène; Montagne, Karen; Parvu, Cristina; Paturel, Dominique; Précigout, Frédéric; Téchoueyres, Isabelle

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“…Other studies have considered the FEAD's effectiveness in meeting the right to food and promoting social inclusion in the region of Murcia, Spain (García-Navarro and José 2018); the political and institutional dynamics behind its adoption in 2014 and its shift from a food surplus programme to a social inclusion programme (Caraher 2015;Madama 2016;Silvasti 2015); its objective of establishing direct links between the supra-national level and the social and civic grassroots (Ferrera 2014); its governance structure (Carimentrand et al 2016); and the relationship between food aid and agricultural policies in terms of sustainable food supply (Lambie-Mumford and Silvasti 2020).…”

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Reasonable Hopes and Little Progress!

Cace,

Stănescu,

Cace

2024

Social Sciences

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In this article, we aim to describe how the Operational Programme for the Support of Disadvantaged People (POAD), part of the European Fund for the Most Disadvantaged People (FEAD), has contributed to reducing the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion in Romania. We highlight the role of the auxiliary measures that accompanied the food support programme, as well as the added-value element of the implementation of the programme in Romania, emphasising the introduction of electronic social vouchers for hot meals for the eligible target group and electronic social vouchers to provide educational support for disadvantaged children. The research methodology used considered combinations of quantitative and qualitative methods, combining multiple data sources to reflect the perspectives of all stakeholders and relating quantitative data to representative samples using a participatory approach. Macro-level data on risk-of-poverty and social exclusion indicators, as well as information from sectoral analyses (social transfers), show an improvement in the situation of people in the POAD target group and a decrease in the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion. However, progress is limited, and it is difficult to determine the degree to which this is due to the POAD. Romania still ranks lowest in the European Union in terms of indicators measuring the risk of poverty and social exclusion. The provision and monitoring of accompanying programmes are an area where the potential of POAD could be further exploited. The need to strengthen the accompanying measures is extraordinarily strong and emerges from the analysis of information provided by final beneficiaries and public authorities responsible for the implementation of the programme. The distribution of social vouchers enables final beneficiaries to choose the goods they need. Purchases with social vouchers are less affected by the risks of financial corrections, final beneficiaries can monitor the consumption of the support received in real time, the number of supporting documents is reduced, and reimbursement is issued only for the amounts used by final beneficiaries.

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Reasonable Hopes and Little Progress!

Cace,

Stănescu,

Cace

2024

Social Sciences

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“…In‐depth studies tackling these issues in and across countries are lacking. To date, FEAD has been investigated in relation to (a) political and institutional dynamics behind its adoption in 2014 and its shift from a food surplus to a social inclusion programme (Caraher, 2015; Madama, 2016); (b) its goal to establish direct links between the supranational level and social and civic grass roots (Ferrera, 2014); (c) its governance structure (e.g., Silvasti, 2015); (d) the relation between food aid and agricultural policies, in respect to sustainable food supplies (Carimentrand et al, 2016) and (e) its effectiveness in satisfying the right to food and in fostering social inclusion in the region of Murcia, Spain (García‐Navarro & García‐Gómez, 2018).…”

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The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived: A Trojan horse dilemma?

Greiss¹,

Cantillon²,

Penne

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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Although the ‘Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived’ (FEAD) is a peripheral financing instrument with respect to European cohesion policy, it is a concrete case of a redistributive and highly targeted European anti‐poverty programme. In this sense, it is a unique supranational instrument providing social protection to European citizens, playing on the necessity of food aid in most European Union (EU) countries. With this in mind, we shed light on the Fund's budgetary scope in relation to national welfare state efforts. Also, we argue that there is some indication that FEAD could potentially contribute to shifting responsibilities from the national to the European level. For a better understanding of this phenomenon, we draw parallels to the case of the United States' Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program. We conclude that FEAD bears resemblance to a contemporary ‘Trojan horse’: it is welcomed by the Member States as a deceptively innocent EU gift but it might in the long run support the role of the EU as an agent that plugs gaps within national social protection schemes.

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How Do European Countries Use EU‐Funded Food Aid and How Important Is It for the Most Deprived?

Hermans,

Cantillon

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) aims at providing food and (non‐)material assistance to the most vulnerable European citizens. Linking macro and micro data on the importance of FEAD resources shows, however, a mixed picture of targeting the most deprived: although FEAD budgets accrue more to countries with greater social needs, when the budgets are compared with the number of severely deprived persons, FEAD resources were found to be more than twice as high in Finland than in Hungary. This suggests that FEAD does not differentiate sufficiently across countries to focus on the poorest citizens within the Union. Moreover, a micro‐level analysis of how these budgets are spent in a number of selected countries (Belgium, Finland, Hungary and Spain) reveals large between‐ and within‐country variations in the developed FEAD programmes, indicating substantial discretionary leeway for Member States and social organisations to implement FEAD.

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Creating New Links Between Agriculture and Food Aid: New Perspectives from France

Cited by 6 publications

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Reasonable Hopes and Little Progress!

Reasonable Hopes and Little Progress!

The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived: A Trojan horse dilemma?

How Do European Countries Use EU‐Funded Food Aid and How Important Is It for the Most Deprived?

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