What do we know about the future of food assistance?

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dc.creatorOmamo, Steven Were
dc.date2025-07-21
dc.date2025-06-30T20:04:13Z
dc.date2025-06-30T20:04:13Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:27:02Z
dc.descriptionFood assistance has evolved to address both immediate needs and long-term resilience, reflecting the broader scope of interventions beyond traditional food aid. Localized and cash-based assistance is growing in importance, but externally sourced, in-kind assistance remains crucial in areas where markets and food systems are disrupted and thus unable to ensure timely and stable access to nutritious food. Future food assistance needs will increasingly reflect changing geographies, growing urban food insecurity, and heightened market volatility, requiring adaptive, anticipatory, and multilayered strategies. Significant gaps remain in understanding how to sustainably transition from international food assistance to locally driven, resilient food systems that address long-term nutritional adequacy and adapt to compounding crises. Foresight research can help highlight the intersection of climate change, conflict, and economic volatility as key drivers of future food assistance needs, and the nature of innovations to boost efficiency and impact. Expanded use of digital tools and integration of food assistance into social protection systems offer promising pathways toward enhanced efficiency and impact. Further research is needed to ensure that innovations reach the most vulnerable in low-resource settings and that integrated systems are sustainable.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/175409
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104745
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/175019
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceOmamo, Steven Were. 2025. What do we know about the future of food assistance? In What do we know about the future of food systems? eds. Keith Wiebe and Elisabetta Gotor. Part One: What Do We Know About the Future of Food Systems Drivers and Impacts? Chapter 16, Pp. 91-96. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175409
dc.subjectfood assistance
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectfood aid
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectmarkets
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectWFP
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectdigital technology
dc.titleWhat do we know about the future of food assistance?
dc.typeBook Chapter

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