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Refugees, Food Security, and Resilience in Host Communities: Transitioning from Humanitarian Assistance to Development in Protracted Refugee Situations
Mabiso, Athur; Maystadt, Jean-François; Vandercasteelen, Joachim; Hirvonen, Kalle
2020 Resilience Conference Paper 2 –
Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security – May 15-17, 2014 – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
An emerging literature shows how the mass arrival of refugees induces both short- and long-term consequences to hosting countries. The main contribution of this paper is to conduct a selective review of this literature from a food-security and resilience perspective. First, the paper identifies a number of direct and indirect food-security consequences of hosting refugees. It provides a conceptual framework for discussing these various channels through which refugee inflows influence food security in the hosting countries. In the short run, violence, environmental degradation, and disease propagation are risks, with indirect implications for food security, while the long-run channels include changes in infrastructure, trade, and labor markets, as well as competition for resources. Second, the literature review finds that the impact of large-scale influxes of refugees on host communities and on their food security is unequally distributed among the local population. Locals with better ex ante access to resources, education, and political connections are more likely to benefit as a result of refugee inflows, while the disadvantaged become increasingly vulnerable. In the short run, humanitarian aid (for example, food aid) is the usual global response, with varying impact on the food security and resilience of host countries. Effectiveness of the humanitarian aid depends, however, on its nature and on the country context, both of which need careful consideration. In the long run, humanitarian aid should pave the way for development. In particular, investments such as improving road infrastructure and fostering trade with refugees’ countries of origin are strategies worth exploring for enhancing resilience and transitioning toward development. Finally, we stress the need for more research on the consequences of refugees and alternative polices on food security and resilience in host communities.
2020resilienceconfpaper02.pdf(1.9MB)

Brown Journal of World Affairs
Spring/Summer 2014 • volume xx, issue 1i
The Changing Face of Humanitarian Crises
FM Burkle Jr, G Martone, PG Greenough
[Initial text]
The scale and cadence of crises that demand international humanitarian response is increasing. The cumulative frequency and severity of climate change on large populations, rapid and unsustainable urbanization, decreasing biodi¬versity, and the impending realities of resource scarcities and the armed conflicts they might catalyze are only some of the challenges that loom ahead. It is ironic that while human civilization today possesses the most advanced technologies, global prosperity, and abundance, we face the greatest absolute number of people lacking access to clean water, food, shelter, and basic healthcare.1 Worldwide standards of living show that health status, life expectancy, child survival, de¬mocratization and political participation, literacy and matriculation, and gender equality are at their best while the incidence of armed conflicts is at the lowest level in human history.2 Yet despite the improvement in global standards, the shortcomings in worldwide accessibility to basic needs make the preparation of the humanitarian complex even more urgent in the face of emerging crises.
Critical masses of evidence indicate that the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme events affecting populations are on the rise.3 These “mega-catastrophes” are attributable to a number of converging megatrends, defined here as global, sustained, and often slow to form forces that will define our future. An increasing number of droughts on every continent; rapid and unsus¬tainable urbanization plagued by insufficient public health infrastructure…

World Journal of Surgery
Volume 38, Issue 6, June 2014
http://link.springer.com/journal/268/38/6/page/1
The Extent of Soft Tissue and Musculoskeletal Injuries after Earthquakes; Describing a Role for Reconstructive Surgeons in an Emergency Response
A. J. P. Clover, B. Jemec, A. D. Redmond
Abstract
Background
Earthquakes are the leading cause of natural disaster-related mortality and morbidity. Soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries are the predominant type of injury seen after these events and a major reason for admission to hospital. Open fractures are relatively common; however, they are resource-intense to manage. Appropriate management is important in minimising amputation rates and preserving function. This review describes the pattern of musculoskeletal and soft-tissue injuries seen after earthquakes and explores the manpower and resource implications involved in their management.
Methods
A Medline search was performed, including terms “injury pattern” and “earthquake,” “epidemiology injuries” and “earthquakes,” “plastic surgery,” “reconstructive surgery,” “limb salvage” and “earthquake.” Papers published between December 1992 and December 2012 were included, with no initial language restriction.
Results
Limb injuries are the commonest injuries seen accounting for 60 % of all injuries, with fractures in more than 50 % of those admitted to hospital, with between 8 and 13 % of these fractures open. After the first few days and once the immediate lifesaving phase is over, the management of these musculoskeletal and soft-tissue injuries are the commonest procedures required.
Conclusions
Due to the predominance of soft-tissue and musculoskeletal injuries, plastic surgeons as specialists in soft-tissue reconstruction should be mobilised in the early stages of a disaster response as part of a multidisciplinary team with a focus on limb salvage.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
April 2014; 43 (2)
http://nvs.sagepub.com/content/current
Nonprofit–Public Collaborations Understanding Governance Dynamics
Chris Cornforth1, John Paul Hayes1, Siv Vangen1
1Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK
Chris Cornforth, Open University Business School, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK.
Abstract
As many of the challenges facing society are too complex to be addressed by single organizations working alone, nonprofit organizations are increasingly working in collaboration with public authorities. The governance of nonprofit–public collaborations is important for their effectiveness, yet it remains poorly understood. Drawing on case study research, this article examines and develops an extant conceptual model developed by Takahashi and Smutny that seeks to explain the formation and demise of nonprofit collaborations in terms of “collaborative windows” and the inability to adapt initial governance structures. The research finds that while initial governance structures are an important constraint on development, they can be adapted and changed. It also suggests that the development of collaborations is not only influenced by changes in the collaborative window but also by how key actors in the collaboration respond to important internal tensions.