Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Food Studies Centre
Digitalisation of food assistance project
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‘Digitalising Food Assistance: Political economy, governance and food security effects across the Global North-South divide’ is a 3-year ESRC-funded project examining digitalising food assistance in Sudan, India and the UK.
Our aim is to understand how the digitalisation of food assistance shapes vulnerability to food insecurity, its role as a source of power and way of governing, and to examine its implications for addressing hunger, locally and globally.
As part of the project we will:
- Map different digital food assistance practices and the motivations for adopting them.
- Investigate how digital practices relate to welfare, production, trade and finance, and their implications for power dynamics, inequality and profit.
- Explore the effects of digitalised food assistance on marginalised populations, with particular emphasis on migrants and displaced people.
- Influence policy and practice using evidence on the effect of digital technologies.
Project team
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- Dr Susanne Jaspars, Principle investigator (SOAS University of London)
- Dr C. Sathyamala, Co-investigator (Institute for Human Development in New Delhi)
- Dr Tamer Abd Elkreem, Co-investigator (University of Khartoum, supported by CEDEJ-Khartoum, the French Centre for Economic, Legal and Social Studies in Sudan).
- Dr Iris Lim, Postdoctoral researcher, UK lead
- Yasmin Houamed, Postdoctoral researcher
Project partners
- Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency (DDRA) in Sudan
- Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS) in India
- The Food Foundation in the UK
- Institute for Human Development in India
- CEDEJ-Khartoum (French Centre for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies in Sudan)
- University of Khartoum
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- Email: dfaproj@soas.ac.uk
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