A major 3-year ESRC- funded project examining how digitalising food assistance has influenced access to food for marginalised populations and its role as a source of power. We’re working in Sudan, India and the UK. The project is situated in the SOAS Food Studies Centre.
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Event
17 September 2025
Tamer and Susanne presented a paper at the IDS conference (from 15-17 September 2025) on ‘The Politics of Digitalising Food Assistance in Sudan’s Crisis, and its Effect on the Food Security of Marginalised Populations’.
Publication
26 August 2025
After several weeks of mass starvation in Gaza dominating global television coverage, news reports of similar conditions in Sudan’s El Fasher, once Darfur’s capital, are finally emerging. Both regions remain under siege, with starvation deployed as a weapon for the purpose of emptying and occupying them.
Event
2 July 2025
The international team met in Cairo (with Indian colleagues joining online) to discuss the preliminary analysis of our three country cases, start a comparative analysis, and plan our publications and dissemination strategy.
Event
26 June 2025
Sathya, Tamer and Susanne participated online in the DSA conference of 2025 on the 26th of June.
Publication
9 June 2025
This article argues that the digitalisation of food assistance mimics aspects of colonialism, especially in terms of the asymmetries involved in the extraction of data (as a valuable resource) from vulnerable populations and the dominating role of US-based multinationals.
Publication
2 June 2025
This working paper reports on phase I – the exploratory phase – of ESRC-funded research into the effects of digitalising food assistance in India.
