Making ends meet in refugee camps: food distribution cycles, consumption and undernutrition

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cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Banken_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeFragility, Conflict, and Migrationen_US
cg.coverage.countryChaden_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TDen_US
cg.coverage.regionMiddle Africaen_US
cg.coverage.subregionLogone Orientalen_US
cg.creator.identifierMarie-Charlotte Buisson: 0000-0002-2111-1864en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102666en_US
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH052993en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn0306-9192en_US
cg.journalFood Policyen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.volume128en_US
dc.contributor.authorAubery, F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBuisson, Marie-Charlotteen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-31T10:03:57Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-07-31T10:03:57Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149327en_US
dc.titleMaking ends meet in refugee camps: food distribution cycles, consumption and undernutritionen_US
dcterms.abstractYears after the initial settlement, food aid remains an essential component of humanitarian assistance for protracted refugees in managed camps. From data collected among refugee households in three camps in southern Chad and an exogenous variation of time between the latest food distribution and households’ interviews, we draw the time path of household’s consumption. Consistent with the literature on intertemporal choices in high-income countries, refugee households experience an average decline of 1.1 to 1.5 percent per day in their daily caloric intake between distributions. The short-term nutritional status of children under five also responds to the distance from food aid distribution and confirms the existence of food distribution cycles. Our results suggest that households don’t smooth consumption during the interval of time between two distributions, and face regular and frequent cycles of food shortage resulting in detrimental consequences on children’s health.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.available2024-07-19en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAubery, F.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte. 2024. Making ends meet in refugee camps: food distribution cycles, consumption and undernutrition. Food Policy, 128:102666. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102666]en_US
dcterms.extent128:102666. en_US
dcterms.issued2024-10en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-3.0-IGOen_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectrefugee campsen_US
dcterms.subjectfood consumptionen_US
dcterms.subjectdistributionen_US
dcterms.subjectconsumption patternsen_US
dcterms.subjectundernutritionen_US
dcterms.subjectmalnutritionen_US
dcterms.subjectcaloric intakeen_US
dcterms.subjectchildrenen_US
dcterms.subjectfood aiden_US
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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