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This chapter describes the food security features in the humanitarian context focusing on the new way of working requested by the complexity of the current emergency situations and consisting in the passage from food aid to food assistance. To this purpose, the chapter introduces the concept of food aid and its distinguishing features followed by the description of the different typologies of emergency situations and the presentation of the concept of food assistance. Afterwards, the focus shifts on the schemes commonly adopted within the food assistance framework: cash transfers and food-related programmes. At the end of this chapter, the reader will be able to understand the debate on the new way of working, the humanitarian-development nexus, and its implications for policies and practices in the international food aid system.
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Sassi, M. (2018). Food Aid and Food Assistance. In: Understanding Food Insecurity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70362-6_6
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