Recipients’ Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey

Violette, William; Harou, Aurélie; Upton, Joanna; Bell, Samuel D.; Barrett, Chris; Gómez, Miguel I.; Lentz, Erin

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.01.019

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“…These hypothesized effects help explain the mixed support of recipient countries for traditional, in-kind food aid. There is a literature documenting other impacts of this policy switch: e.g., consumers prefer cash-based assistance [35] and humanitarian agency personnel in conflict zones are at a reduced risk [36, 37]. These arguments helped motivate passage of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 (S. 1252) by the U.S. Congress in July 2016 that permanently authorizes the Emergency Food Security Program by which the U.S. now provides cash-based food assistance along the lines we recommend.…”

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Assessing the Impact of U.S. Food Assistance Delivery Policies on Child Mortality in Northern Kenya

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The U.S. is the main country in the world that delivers its food assistance primarily via transoceanic shipments of commodity-based in-kind food. This approach is costlier and less timely than cash-based assistance, which includes cash transfers, food vouchers, and local and regional procurement, where food is bought in or nearby the recipient country. The U.S.’s approach is exacerbated by a requirement that half of its transoceanic food shipments need to be sent on U.S.-flag vessels. We estimate the effect of these U.S. food assistance distribution policies on child mortality in northern Kenya by formulating and optimizing a supply chain model. In our model, monthly orders of transoceanic shipments and cash-based interventions are chosen to minimize child mortality subject to an annual budget constraint and to policy constraints on the allowable proportions of cash-based interventions and non-US-flag shipments. By varying the restrictiveness of these policy constraints, we assess the impact of possible changes in U.S. food aid policies on child mortality. The model includes an existing regression model that uses household survey data and geospatial data to forecast the mean mid-upper-arm circumference Z scores among children in a community, and allows food assistance to increase Z scores, and Z scores to influence mortality rates. We find that cash-based interventions are a much more powerful policy lever than the U.S.-flag vessel requirement: switching to cash-based interventions reduces child mortality from 4.4% to 3.7% (a 16.2% relative reduction) in our model, whereas eliminating the U.S.-flag vessel restriction without increasing the use of cash-based interventions generates a relative reduction in child mortality of only 1.1%. The great majority of the gains achieved by cash-based interventions are due to their reduced cost, not their reduced delivery lead times; i.e., the reduction of shipping expenses allows for more food to be delivered, which reduces child mortality.

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“…Moreover, donated food is often expired, adulterated, and or contaminated because of long storage duration associated with poor storage conditions and extended periods of transportation; typically 4-5 months (Wareing et al, 1993;Landman, 1999;Marchione, 2002;Barrett and Maxwell, 2006;Barrett and Maxwell, 2007). Furthermore, it is associated with high costs of delivery to recipient country (Barrett and Maxwell, 2007;del Ninno et al, 2007;Violette et al, 2013). Besides the international food aid, food donations to homeless people in the UK was also reported to be of poor nutritional quality as energy, potassium, calcium, vitamin C, vitamin A, zinc and magnesium content were below the dietary reference value (Pelham-Burn et al, 2014).…”

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“…Although it is still a small part of total food aid contributions (Murphy and McAfee, 2005), the support for local purchases is growing (Harvey et al, 2010). It is often observed that local/regional purchases is more cost effective and faster (Harou et al, 2013;Lentz et al, 2013), provide foods which are more culturally appropriate and/ or preferred, nutritious (vitamin content, calories, fat and protein content, omega 3 fatty acids and gluten free) and less time to cook (Harou et al, 2013;Violette et al, 2013).…”

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“…Donated food is primarily not produced for food aid; it is commonly a surplus from donating countries and is often stored for a long time before being donated (Kripke, 2005;Barrett and Maxwell, 2006;Barrett and Maxwell, 2007;Levinsohn and McMillan, 2007). Origin of the food aid also affects the satisfaction of the food aid recipients due to pride of place and perceived differences in food safety and quality (Harou et al, 2013;Violette et al, 2013).…”

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Key-risk factors on quality and safety of donated foods in the food aid supply chains: A theoretical framework

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2016

Afr. J. Food Sci. Technol

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This article presents a theoretical framework that could be applied to provide an insight on the impacts of key-risk factors on quality and safety of donated food along the food aid supply chains. Donated food comes from various countries, produced for different purposes, stored and transported over the long chains to several locations under variable conditions and handled by numerous people often with restricted knowledge on proper food handling. Although there are various reports on the deficiencies in quality and safety of donated food, there is yet a restricted knowledge on where and how quality and safety of donated food could be affected. A technomanagerial approach has been used to develop a theoretical framework to give insights on the risk factors that could impact quality and safety of products along the food aid supply chains. History of donated food products, intrinsic product properties and characteristics of the national food control system were identified as the key-risk factors impacting quality/safety of donated food along the production chains in the donating countries; whereas food legislation, infrastructure and resources, and management and administration of the food control system are the major quality and safety influencing factors at points of receipt. Lastly, intrinsic product properties, qualities of the workforce, nature of the distribution infrastructure, and complexity of the supply chain were identified as the key-risk factors on quality and safety of food during distribution in the receiving countries. This theoretical framework could be used by food aid receiving countries to make informed decisions on the status of imported donated food products and provide relevant distribution and storage requirements to ensure that the intended recipients get quality and safe food products.

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“…Comparisons of internationally transported food aid with locally or regionally sourced grains have found that buying grain locally is generally cheaper because of savings on transportation and storage, (Lentz, Passarelli and Barrett, 2013) and more preferred by beneficiaries because of differences in local varieties and cultivation methods. (Violette et al, 2013) If policymakers choose to employ local procurement when implementing an in-kind transfer, additional challenges arise. First, in many contexts, even basic staple goods are heterogeneous, and their price and quality can vary widely.…”

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The Distributional Consequences of Group Procurement

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2015

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Public transfer programs that allow beneficiaries to choose the transferred good may be more efficient, but the poorest beneficiaries may not participate if the good chosen is too costly. A model shows that program targeting and consumption impacts are tied to selected quality of the provided good. Evidence from a randomized trial in rural India in which groups of beneficiaries choose the variety of rice to be offered as a subsidized loan confirms that choosing lower cost goods self-targets the program towards the poorest beneficiaries. Consumption impacts are biggest for wealthiest households and may be negative for moderately poor households.

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Recipients’ Satisfaction with Locally Procured Food Aid Rations: Comparative Evidence from a Three Country Matched Survey

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Assessing the Impact of U.S. Food Assistance Delivery Policies on Child Mortality in Northern Kenya

Assessing the Impact of U.S. Food Assistance Delivery Policies on Child Mortality in Northern Kenya

Key-risk factors on quality and safety of donated foods in the food aid supply chains: A theoretical framework

The Distributional Consequences of Group Procurement

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