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Digital food assistance in India: Towards a digital welfare state.

By admin|2025-06-02T15:36:26+00:00June 2, 2025|Publication|

This working paper reports on phase I – the exploratory phase – of ESRC-funded research into the effects of digitalising food assistance in India.

Yasmin Houamed presents at the Future Food Symposium 2025

By admin|2025-06-02T14:48:23+00:00June 2, 2025|Event|

On May 21, 2025, Yasmin presented on findings from the Birmingham case study at the Future Food Symposium 2025, hosted by the University of Birmingham's Business School.

Digital food assistance in Sudan: Life-saver, risk, political tool in situations of war

By admin|2025-03-10T13:12:27+00:00February 17, 2025|Publication|

This working paper reports on the exploratory phase of ESRC-funded research into the effects of digitalising food assistance in Sudan. The main question addressed is: to what extent have food assistance and social welfare practices been digitalised, and why?

Starvation crimes, network shutdowns, and obstacles to humanitarian action in Gaza and Sudan

By admin|2024-12-13T16:35:40+00:00December 12, 2024|Publication|

In this blog, IHSA Vice-President and Senior Research Fellow at the Food Studies Centre at SOAS (University of London) Susanne Jaspars summarises and expands upon a contribution to the roundtable that followed the inaugural IHSA Annual Lecture on “War and Humanity” held in Bergen in May 2024.

Sudan’s catastrophe: the role of changing dynamics of food and power in the Gezira agricultural scheme

By admin|2024-12-13T16:37:20+00:00December 12, 2024|Publication|

This article, originally published on 30 October 2024 by Disasters, explores the role of historical, political, and economic processes in understanding war and famine in Sudan after 2023.

Conference presentation on ‘digital agriculture’ in India

By admin|2024-12-16T18:48:32+00:00December 11, 2024|Event|

From 16-19 July 2024, Sathya and Susanne participated in a conference in Amsterdam organised by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).