The Role of Socio-Economic Data in Food Needs Assessment and Monitoring

This paper reviews six case studies examined as part of a project to review targetting methodologies employed by non‐government organisations in Africa during the 1984‐6 food crisis. Most agencies have not yet fully evaluated the role of data in informing policy decisions during their respective emergency programmes. The case studies presented reflect a wide variety of approaches to targetting emergency food aid that are based largely on the use...