ABSTRACT
Interventions to address food insecurity have classically been a humanitarian response to a crisis in food availability triggered by a natural hazard or conflict. They have conventionally been envisaged as relatively short term interventions within a framework of disaster response and post-disaster recovery where humanitarian action has been phased out, as development efforts have been phased in. There has been an explicit duality whereby humanitarian action has been separated from ‘normal’ development activity, reflected both in the organizational structures of donor agencies and actors – humanitarian versus development activities – and in funding sources and flows. In some respects the former has been about providing food, whereas the latter has been about supporting agriculture and livelihoods.
