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  • Publication

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

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

  • Event

    Yasmin Houamed presents at the Future Food Symposium 2025

    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.

  • Event

    Susanne Jaspars speaks at the Conflict, War and Peace Conference in Utrecht

    Susanne was invited to speak at a conference at Utrecht University (13-14 February 2025) on 'Conflict, War and Peace', as part of a panel on rethinking structural violence.

  • Publication

    Beyond efficiency: Exploring the complex impact of digital welfare systems on food security in the UK

    This working paper examines the digitalisation of food assistance in the UK, focusing on its implementation, challenges, and socio-political implications.

  • Publication

    17 February 2025

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

    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?

  • Publication

    10 December 2024

    AI was supposed to make the UK benefits system more efficient. Instead it’s brought bias and hunger.

    A freedom of information request has revealed that an AI system used by the UK government for assessing benefits cases is apparently getting it wrong by a “statistically significant” amount.

  • Event

    5 November 2024

    Iris Lim’s presentation at the Future of Immigration Conference 2024

    On 5 November 2024, Iris Lim presented “Digital Access to Welfare Services and Food Assistance for Migrants in the UK” at the Future of Immigration Conference 2024.

  • Event

    7 November 2024

    UK Team participate in the Festival of Social Sciences 2024 at SOAS

    The UK team co-delivered an interactive workshop “Digital Solutions for Food Insecurity: Can Technology Address Food Access Challenges?”

  • Publication

    31 October 2024

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

    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.

  • Publication

    30 October 2024

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

    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.

  • Event

    16 July 2024

    Conference presentation on ‘digital agriculture’ in India

    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).

  • Multimedia,Press

    20 April 2024

    Project featured on Amnesty International Students Rotterdam podcast on Sudan

    In this podcast, Dr Susanne Jaspars and Dr Tamer Abd Elkreem speak with Amnesty International Students Rotterdam about the ongoing crisis in Sudan.

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    12 June 2024

    Research team present at the DSA 2024 Conference

    Check out our panel on ‘governance, politics and food security’ at the upcoming DSA conference.

  • Event

    24 April 2024

    Research presentation in Cairo

    On Wednesday the 24th of April, 2024, the team presented preliminary findings of the research at the CEDEJ Khartoum office in Cairo.

  • Press

    5 December 2023

    Project Sudan Blog selected as top 5 in Humanitarian Evidence!

    The Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary has selected the Sudan Project Blog post as one of the top 5 reads in the October issue.

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  • Event

    24 November 2023

    Reflections from the Festival of Social Sciences at SOAS

    Iris Lim participated in the @ESRC Festival of Social Science, held on 3rd and 6th November, SOAS

  • Event

    24 November 2023

    Team participates in World Conference on Humanitarian Studies

    From 5-7 November, the ‘digitalising food assistance’ team participated in the World Conference on Humanitarian Studies. 

  • Event

    24 November 2023

    Sudan conference at the University of Bergen

    Susanne and Tamer participated in a conference (from 18-20 October 2023) at the University of Bergen, marking the 60 year anniversary of academic collaboration between Bergen and Sudan, in particular the University of Khartoum

  • Publication

    21 November 2023

    The evolution of digital risk in food assistance

    The past two decades have seen an acceleration in the digitalisation of food assistance and social welfare.

  • Publication

    29 August 2023

    Sudan’s Crisis: Can Cash Transfers Prevent Starvation and State Collapse?

    Sudan has experienced a catastrophic increase in violence since 15 April, particularly in Darfur and in the capital Khartoum.

  • Publication

    29 August 2023

    الأزمة السودانية: هل تسهم التحويلات المالية في منع المجاعة وانهيار الدولة

    يشهد السودان تصاعداً مهولاً في العنف الدائر بالبلاد، منذ ١٥ أبريل الماضي، تحديداً في دارفور وفي العاصمة الخرطوم. ترك الصراع العنيف بين قوات الدعم السريع شبه العسكرية، والقوات المسلحة السودانية للسيطرة على البلاد ومواردها، أثراً بالغاً على حيوات معظم سكان السودان. وعلى الرغم من أن هذه المعركة تبدو للوهلة الأولى وكأنها حدثاً طارئاً ، إلا أن الواقع الحالي يقتضي النظر إليها كتكثيف لنشاط الاقتصاد السياسي السوداني الاستخراجي (الريعي)، بجانب استخدام المليشيا في خوض الحروب الداخلية السودانية

  • Publication

    4 May 2023

    Sudan’s catastrophe: A long history of failed responses to structural and direct violence

    The current crisis in Sudan has deep roots. Seemingly erupting suddenly, it has in fact been a long time coming. Sudan is a highly unequal country – socially, politically, and economically, along geographical, ethnic and class axes.

  • Publication

    July 5 2022

    Digital Famine: Discussing Risks and Prevention

    The 2008 financial crisis and the Covid pandemic have dramatically accelerated the use of digital technologies to respond to food insecurity and humanitarian crises.

  • Publication

    1 June 2022

    Digital feast and famine: Digital technologies and humanitarian law in food security, starvation and famine risk

    This working paper presents the findings of a brief exploratory study into the role of digital technologies in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and its implications for starvation and famine risk.

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