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Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S., & Kuol, L. B. D. (2025). Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction. Disasters, 49(1), Article e12669. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12669

Over the past decade, famine and food insecurity have increased, yet there have been few articles with a critical analysis of their social and political dynamics. This special issue of Disasters aims to revive such analysis and to provide new insight... Read More about Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction.

Sudan's catastrophe: the role of changing dynamics of food and power in the Gezira agricultural scheme (2024)
Journal Article
Elkreem, T. A., & Jaspars, S. (2025). Sudan's catastrophe: the role of changing dynamics of food and power in the Gezira agricultural scheme. Disasters, 49(1), Article e12663. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12663

This article explores the role of historical, political, and economic processes in understanding war and famine in Sudan after 2023. The focus is on Al‐Gezira, the site of Sudan's largest agricultural scheme. Using ethnography, interviews, and docume... Read More about Sudan's catastrophe: the role of changing dynamics of food and power in the Gezira agricultural scheme.

Food and Power in Protracted Crisis: How Systems and Institutions Influence Livelihoods, Food Security, and Nutrition. (2023)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S. (2023). Food and Power in Protracted Crisis: How Systems and Institutions Influence Livelihoods, Food Security, and Nutrition. Food and nutrition bulletin (Tokyo. Print), 44(2 suppl), S23-S31. https://doi.org/10.1177/03795721231202236

This article examines how systems and institutions influence the distribution of resources in society and, as such, affect livelihoods, food security, and nutrition. It draws on research on the political economy of food, and the governance effects of... Read More about Food and Power in Protracted Crisis: How Systems and Institutions Influence Livelihoods, Food Security, and Nutrition..

Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity (2023)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S., Majid, N., & Adan, G. (2023). Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 61(3), 343-366. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X23000071

Somalia has a long history of famine and humanitarian crisis. This article focuses on the years 2008–2020, during which governance and aid practices changed substantially and which include three crisis periods. The article examines whether and how go... Read More about Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity.

Protracted crisis, food security and the fantasy of resilience in Sudan (2020)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S. (2021). Protracted crisis, food security and the fantasy of resilience in Sudan. Security Dialogue, 52(3), 195-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010620927279

In the past decade, food security and nutrition practices have become central in the promotion of resilience in protracted crises. Such approaches have been welcomed by the aid community because of their potential for linking relief and development.... Read More about Protracted crisis, food security and the fantasy of resilience in Sudan.

Darfuri Journeys to Europe: Causes, Risks and Humanitarian Abandonment (2020)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S., Buchanan‐Smith, M., & Adam Abdul‐Jalil, M. (2021). Darfuri Journeys to Europe: Causes, Risks and Humanitarian Abandonment. International Migration Review, 59(3), 63-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12723

Darfuris were amongst the thousands of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe in 2014, thus becoming part of Europe’s so-called “refugee crisis”. Rather than creating a crisis in Europe, however, their flight reflects a new phase in Darfur’s humani... Read More about Darfuri Journeys to Europe: Causes, Risks and Humanitarian Abandonment.

Contested evolution of nutrition for humanitarian and development ends: Report of an international workshop (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Jaspars, S., Scott-Smith, T., Hull, E., & Blake, L. Contested evolution of nutrition for humanitarian and development ends: Report of an international workshop. London

This working paper reports on a workshop organised by the Food Studies Centre at SOAS, University of London and the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. The workshop aimed to explore and debate how and why humanitarian and development nutriti... Read More about Contested evolution of nutrition for humanitarian and development ends: Report of an international workshop.

The state, inequality, and the political economy of long-term food aid in Sudan (2018)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S. (2018). The state, inequality, and the political economy of long-term food aid in Sudan. African Affairs, 117(469), 592-612. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ady030

Inequality is a major determinant of access to food in Sudan, with power, wealth and services concentrated within a central Sudan elite, leaving much of the country marginalized, impoverished and suffering repeated emergencies. This article discusses... Read More about The state, inequality, and the political economy of long-term food aid in Sudan.

Food aid in Sudan: A history of Power, Politics and Profit (2018)
Book
Jaspars, S. (2018). Food aid in Sudan: A history of Power, Politics and Profit. Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350220164

In 2004, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the largest in the world. Yet by 2014, while the crisis continued, international a... Read More about Food aid in Sudan: A history of Power, Politics and Profit.