Hilje Van Der Horst
Biographic Data
| ID | 234226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilje Van Der Horst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilje |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Horst |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER HORST H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5978-9200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Advancing a healthy and sustainable food environment at a railway station: (How) does a collaborative approach work
Background Local governments are increasingly resorting to collaborative approaches to improve food environments due to a lack of legal instruments. Yet, the context-related factors influencing such collaborations, as well as their complexity and impact on the food environment remain unknown. This study explored a public private collaboration aiming to improve the food environment at a railway station. Methods A prospective single case study (ren…
Towards ritual intervention in meat consumption practices: The case of meat in Dutch Christmas meals
Meat consumption is widely recognized as socially and culturally embedded, yet sociocultural intervention strategies to reduce meat-eating practices remain underdeveloped. This article aims to help fill this research gap by combining insights from social practice theory, ritual studies, and cultural sociology in order to explore 'ritual intervention' strategies. While interventions are usually thought of as initiated from the outside, this articl…
Understanding how social policy impacts health: A realist synthesis
Recognition that health should be considered in all policies is growing, highlighting the need to understand how social policies impact health. Social assistance benefits interventions (SABPI) and debt policy interventions (DPI) are particularly relevant, as they directly shape people’s access to resources and exposure to burdens, triggering responses that generate health outcomes. This study synthesizes the literature on how this works using a r…
Forms of autonomy and dependence in food aid: Unravelling How They Are Related and Perceived by Recipients
Dependence is an inherent aspect of human existence, yet independence and autonomy are powerful ideals, especially where they seem lacking. In the case of food aid, the dependence that it signifies is often experienced as shameful. Food justice scholars and practitioners advocate that people with low incomes should have greater autonomy in exercising their right to food, for example by receiving cash transfers instead of food donations. In this p…
Beef or Beet Wellington? Chefs, meat reduction, and hindering and supportive forms of craftsmanship
One of the most effective ways to mitigate climate change is to shift to more plant-based consumption practices. In this context, hands-on professionals in the food sector such as chefs are often seen as change-makers. Yet, most restaurants in wealthier countries predominantly serve meat and fish. In this paper, we use chefs and their embodied relationship with food as a case, and combine theories of practice and craftsmanship, to better understa…
The politics of transdisciplinary research on societal transitions
Within research on societal transitions, ‘post-normal’ scientific approaches such as transdisciplinary research are increasingly prominent. The difficulties of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are well-established, but less attention has been paid to the underlying causes of these difficulties. In this essay, we argue that the political natures of both ‘transdisciplinarity’ and ‘transitions’ themselves underlie the more visible re…
What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation
There is increasing recognition that sustainable diets need to be ‘culturally appropriate’. In relation to food consumption, however, it is often unclear what cultural appropriateness–or related terms, such as cultural or social acceptability–actually means. Often these terms go undefined, and where definitions are present, they vary widely. Based on a systematic literature review this paper explores how cultural appropriateness of food consumpti…
Game changers for meat and masculinity? Male athletes’ perspectives on mixed and plant-based diets
The dietary choices of male athletes are increasingly a topic of moral and nutritional debate. Though it has long been a consensus that athletes require animal products to advance their athletic goals, this understanding is now challenged in academic and popular sources based on nutritional evidence and concern about the environmental impacts of animal products. In order to better understand how (semi-)professional male athletes perceive plant-ba…
Backlash against Meat Curtailment Policies in online discourse: Populism as a missing link
Given overwhelming evidence that current levels of meat consumption jeopardize human and planetary health, there is a need for governmental action to reduce meat consumption (i.e., Meat Curtailment Policies, or MCPs). However, few such policies are actually being implemented, in part due to fear of backlash. Better understanding the ideological underpinning of backlash is thus crucial for designing strategies that can further the much needed tran…
Murky moralities: Performing Markets in a Charitable Food Aid Organization
This paper explores how competing moralities are brought together in the performance of a market for charitable food aid. Markets, rather than functioning as neutral technologies for bringing together supply and demand, are thoroughly moral phenomena. In markets, calculative devices are crucial for realizing exchange, by facilitating mutual agreement on price and quality. However, such practices of calculation can violate moralities of charity. T…
Snacking practices in school: Othering and deviance in a health-normative context
Many public health interventions encourage healthy behaviours by strengthening health norms within schools or workplaces. Such health norms and health-normative contexts can also produce social hierarchies and forms of othering, including unhealthy ‘deviant’ behaviours. This article aims to better articulate how deviance is produced in a health normative school context. We approach the interplay between a health-oriented environment and deviance …
Customer is king”: Staging consumer culture in a food aid organization
This paper intervenes in critical debates on the role of charitable food aid in meeting the material, social, emotional, and cultural needs of the people who depend on this aid. It offers a detailed case study of a social grocery in Belgium that attempts to circumvent the power inequalities and negative social and emotional impacts of charitable giving through staging consumer culture, and treating clients as customers. This is accomplished with …
Educational Migrants, ICTs and Socio-Spatial Relationships: Establishing Presence from a Distance
Previous research on transnational migration and information and communication technologies (ICTs) demonstrated how ICTs shape transnational social relationships. What remains less explored is how ICTs shape spatial dimensions of such relationships. Also, international educational migrants constitute a substantial part of transnational migration flow, yet their everyday lives are not well studied. Building upon material semiotic scholarship, we e…
History and Institutions in the Rebuilding of Social Capital after Forced Resettlement in the Philippines and Indonesia
Resettlement results in the loss of social capital from which poor households can draw resources for sustenance, survival and wellbeing. While Putnam deems social capital formation as pre-determined by a community’s history of civic engagement, the institutional view argues that social capital is generated through the institutions’ interventions. Utilising a comparative approach involving two resettlement sites, one in the Philippines and one in …
Accomplishing information and change in a smart grid pilot: Linking domestic practices with policy interventions
Behind the roll-out of smart metering technologies lies a belief that personalised, fact-based information enhances energy awareness and allows consumers to modify their behaviour. Amongst others, practice theoretical accounts have shown that this belief stems from a linear, individualistic and unrealistic interpretation of behaviour change. However, in emphasising how energy use is grounded in socio-material realities of everyday life, practice-…
Extending the moral economy beyond households: Gendered livelihood strategies of single migrant women in Accra, Ghana
Short-term risk experience of involuntary resettled households in the Philippines and Indonesia
The “dark side” of food banks? Exploring emotional responses of food bank receivers in the Netherlands
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address how food, social status as well as the interactions at the food bank induce emotions in receivers, such as shame, gratitude and anger. Since early 2000s a steadily growing number of low-income and/or over-indebted households in the Netherlands alleviate their situation with food donations from local food banks. Such food banks collect from companies edible food that would otherwise have gone to wa…
Indian youth in Goa: Scripted Performances of 'True Selves
Goa is a popular touristic destination for middle-class youth in India. By studying their trips to Goa we renegotiate popular concepts in tourism studies, such as authenticity and escape, from the perspective of non-western tourist experiences. During ethnographic research, including both participant observation and interviews in Bangalore and Goa, interviewees emphasized Goa as a place where they could be their ‘true selves’. They juxtaposed thi…
How to live with a taboo instead of 'breaking it'. Alternative empowerment strategies of people with incontinence
Many people throughout the world live with incontinence; however, they infrequently make themselves heard. In the current discourse regarding patient empowerment, this poses a dilemma as empowerment is usually believed to emerge from an individual or collective voice. A common response is that the existing taboo needs to be confronted. However, the metabolic functions of the body are a private affair for most people and ‘coming out’ as being inco…
Disability, family and technical aids: A study of how disabling/enabling experiences come about in hybrid family relations
Research regarding disabling situations generally focuses on disabling situations within a public society ‘out there’. In our research, however, the intimate family setting itself appears central to the emergence of dis/enabling experiences. Moreover, the relationships that shaped these experiences not only involve human family members but also the technical aids associated with people’s specific impairments. Biographical narratives with users of…
Wearing the arm (or not). Reconceptualising notions of in- and exclusion in Disability Studies
In the last few years the social model in Disability Studies has been criticized for focussing too much on social and environmental factors in mechanisms of in- and exclusion and overlooking the materiality and embodied experience of disability. In this article we look at the specific ways in which an assistive technology can give shape to mechanisms of in- and exclusion. We study the biographic narratives of two women who use(d) an arm prosthesi…
Multicultural Planning’ as a Contested Device in Urban Renewal and Housing: Reflections from the Netherlands
The academic literature on multicultural planning is rife with normative views which complicates any conceptualisation grounded in empirical realities. This paper offers a critical review of the dynamic and heterogeneous goals and challenges in multicultural urban planning in the Netherlands during a decade of waning support for multiculturalism. Multicultural planning has been used to justify various goals such as emancipating ethnic groups, mat…
Dwellings in Transnational Lives: A Biographical Perspective on 'Turkish-Dutch' Houses in Turkey
The acquisition of houses was one of the primary goals for those who left Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s to work in the Netherlands. Many attained this goal. However, as the return to Turkey was continuously postponed and eventually called off by many, the roles of these houses in the lives of their owners greatly changed. This article uses a biographical perspective to discuss the altered significance of those houses and increase our understandin…
Turkish Lace Constructing Modernities and Authenticities
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The “dark side” of food banks? Exploring emotional responses of food bank receivers in the Netherlands
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address how food, social status as well as the interactions at the food bank induce emotions in receivers, such as shame, gratitude and anger. Since early 2000s a steadily growing number of low-income and/or over-indebted households in the Netherlands alleviate their situation with food donations from local food banks. Such food banks collect from companies edible food that would otherwise have gone to wa…
Living in a reception centre: The search for home in an institutional setting
This paper discusses the different discourses on living in reception centres. The dominant discourse used in the policy focuses on efficiency and providing shelter rather than on providing a home. The residents, however, use home discourses to evaluate living in the centre. The fact that the centre is not able to provide them with even the most basic attributes of home leaves them very frustrated. Housing researchers have largely ignored the livi…
Dwellings in Transnational Lives: A Biographical Perspective on 'Turkish-Dutch' Houses in Turkey
The acquisition of houses was one of the primary goals for those who left Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s to work in the Netherlands. Many attained this goal. However, as the return to Turkey was continuously postponed and eventually called off by many, the roles of these houses in the lives of their owners greatly changed. This article uses a biographical perspective to discuss the altered significance of those houses and increase our understandin…
Extending the moral economy beyond households: Gendered livelihood strategies of single migrant women in Accra, Ghana
Multicultural Planning’ as a Contested Device in Urban Renewal and Housing: Reflections from the Netherlands
The academic literature on multicultural planning is rife with normative views which complicates any conceptualisation grounded in empirical realities. This paper offers a critical review of the dynamic and heterogeneous goals and challenges in multicultural urban planning in the Netherlands during a decade of waning support for multiculturalism. Multicultural planning has been used to justify various goals such as emancipating ethnic groups, mat…
Backlash against Meat Curtailment Policies in online discourse: Populism as a missing link
Given overwhelming evidence that current levels of meat consumption jeopardize human and planetary health, there is a need for governmental action to reduce meat consumption (i.e., Meat Curtailment Policies, or MCPs). However, few such policies are actually being implemented, in part due to fear of backlash. Better understanding the ideological underpinning of backlash is thus crucial for designing strategies that can further the much needed tran…
It's Not Dutch to Close the Curtains”: Visual Struggles on the Threshold Between Public and Private in a Multi-Ethnic Dutch Neighborhood
The front of the house functions as a border between the public and the private sphere. Different people have different customs in dealing with this area. Whereas some use it as a “front-stage,” on which they present themselves to the outside world, others block their windows with curtains or devote little attention to creating an attractive image. The practices of older Dutch inhabitants, rich decoration, and open curtains, are guided by social …
Accomplishing information and change in a smart grid pilot: Linking domestic practices with policy interventions
Behind the roll-out of smart metering technologies lies a belief that personalised, fact-based information enhances energy awareness and allows consumers to modify their behaviour. Amongst others, practice theoretical accounts have shown that this belief stems from a linear, individualistic and unrealistic interpretation of behaviour change. However, in emphasising how energy use is grounded in socio-material realities of everyday life, practice-…
The politics of transdisciplinary research on societal transitions
Within research on societal transitions, ‘post-normal’ scientific approaches such as transdisciplinary research are increasingly prominent. The difficulties of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are well-established, but less attention has been paid to the underlying causes of these difficulties. In this essay, we argue that the political natures of both ‘transdisciplinarity’ and ‘transitions’ themselves underlie the more visible re…
Game changers for meat and masculinity? Male athletes’ perspectives on mixed and plant-based diets
The dietary choices of male athletes are increasingly a topic of moral and nutritional debate. Though it has long been a consensus that athletes require animal products to advance their athletic goals, this understanding is now challenged in academic and popular sources based on nutritional evidence and concern about the environmental impacts of animal products. In order to better understand how (semi-)professional male athletes perceive plant-ba…
Murky moralities: Performing Markets in a Charitable Food Aid Organization
This paper explores how competing moralities are brought together in the performance of a market for charitable food aid. Markets, rather than functioning as neutral technologies for bringing together supply and demand, are thoroughly moral phenomena. In markets, calculative devices are crucial for realizing exchange, by facilitating mutual agreement on price and quality. However, such practices of calculation can violate moralities of charity. T…
Short-term risk experience of involuntary resettled households in the Philippines and Indonesia
Indian youth in Goa: Scripted Performances of 'True Selves
Goa is a popular touristic destination for middle-class youth in India. By studying their trips to Goa we renegotiate popular concepts in tourism studies, such as authenticity and escape, from the perspective of non-western tourist experiences. During ethnographic research, including both participant observation and interviews in Bangalore and Goa, interviewees emphasized Goa as a place where they could be their ‘true selves’. They juxtaposed thi…
Disability, family and technical aids: A study of how disabling/enabling experiences come about in hybrid family relations
Research regarding disabling situations generally focuses on disabling situations within a public society ‘out there’. In our research, however, the intimate family setting itself appears central to the emergence of dis/enabling experiences. Moreover, the relationships that shaped these experiences not only involve human family members but also the technical aids associated with people’s specific impairments. Biographical narratives with users of…
Customer is king”: Staging consumer culture in a food aid organization
This paper intervenes in critical debates on the role of charitable food aid in meeting the material, social, emotional, and cultural needs of the people who depend on this aid. It offers a detailed case study of a social grocery in Belgium that attempts to circumvent the power inequalities and negative social and emotional impacts of charitable giving through staging consumer culture, and treating clients as customers. This is accomplished with …
Educational Migrants, ICTs and Socio-Spatial Relationships: Establishing Presence from a Distance
Previous research on transnational migration and information and communication technologies (ICTs) demonstrated how ICTs shape transnational social relationships. What remains less explored is how ICTs shape spatial dimensions of such relationships. Also, international educational migrants constitute a substantial part of transnational migration flow, yet their everyday lives are not well studied. Building upon material semiotic scholarship, we e…
Living in a reception centre: The search for home in an institutional setting
This paper discusses the different discourses on living in reception centres. The dominant discourse used in the policy focuses on efficiency and providing shelter rather than on providing a home. The residents, however, use home discourses to evaluate living in the centre. The fact that the centre is not able to provide them with even the most basic attributes of home leaves them very frustrated. Housing researchers have largely ignored the livi…
It's Not Dutch to Close the Curtains”: Visual Struggles on the Threshold Between Public and Private in a Multi-Ethnic Dutch Neighborhood
The front of the house functions as a border between the public and the private sphere. Different people have different customs in dealing with this area. Whereas some use it as a “front-stage,” on which they present themselves to the outside world, others block their windows with curtains or devote little attention to creating an attractive image. The practices of older Dutch inhabitants, rich decoration, and open curtains, are guided by social …
Turkish Lace Constructing Modernities and Authenticities
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Dwellings in Transnational Lives: A Biographical Perspective on 'Turkish-Dutch' Houses in Turkey
The acquisition of houses was one of the primary goals for those who left Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s to work in the Netherlands. Many attained this goal. However, as the return to Turkey was continuously postponed and eventually called off by many, the roles of these houses in the lives of their owners greatly changed. This article uses a biographical perspective to discuss the altered significance of those houses and increase our understandin…
Wearing the arm (or not). Reconceptualising notions of in- and exclusion in Disability Studies
In the last few years the social model in Disability Studies has been criticized for focussing too much on social and environmental factors in mechanisms of in- and exclusion and overlooking the materiality and embodied experience of disability. In this article we look at the specific ways in which an assistive technology can give shape to mechanisms of in- and exclusion. We study the biographic narratives of two women who use(d) an arm prosthesi…
Multicultural Planning’ as a Contested Device in Urban Renewal and Housing: Reflections from the Netherlands
The academic literature on multicultural planning is rife with normative views which complicates any conceptualisation grounded in empirical realities. This paper offers a critical review of the dynamic and heterogeneous goals and challenges in multicultural urban planning in the Netherlands during a decade of waning support for multiculturalism. Multicultural planning has been used to justify various goals such as emancipating ethnic groups, mat…
Disability, family and technical aids: A study of how disabling/enabling experiences come about in hybrid family relations
Research regarding disabling situations generally focuses on disabling situations within a public society ‘out there’. In our research, however, the intimate family setting itself appears central to the emergence of dis/enabling experiences. Moreover, the relationships that shaped these experiences not only involve human family members but also the technical aids associated with people’s specific impairments. Biographical narratives with users of…
Short-term risk experience of involuntary resettled households in the Philippines and Indonesia
The “dark side” of food banks? Exploring emotional responses of food bank receivers in the Netherlands
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address how food, social status as well as the interactions at the food bank induce emotions in receivers, such as shame, gratitude and anger. Since early 2000s a steadily growing number of low-income and/or over-indebted households in the Netherlands alleviate their situation with food donations from local food banks. Such food banks collect from companies edible food that would otherwise have gone to wa…
Indian youth in Goa: Scripted Performances of 'True Selves
Goa is a popular touristic destination for middle-class youth in India. By studying their trips to Goa we renegotiate popular concepts in tourism studies, such as authenticity and escape, from the perspective of non-western tourist experiences. During ethnographic research, including both participant observation and interviews in Bangalore and Goa, interviewees emphasized Goa as a place where they could be their ‘true selves’. They juxtaposed thi…
How to live with a taboo instead of 'breaking it'. Alternative empowerment strategies of people with incontinence
Many people throughout the world live with incontinence; however, they infrequently make themselves heard. In the current discourse regarding patient empowerment, this poses a dilemma as empowerment is usually believed to emerge from an individual or collective voice. A common response is that the existing taboo needs to be confronted. However, the metabolic functions of the body are a private affair for most people and ‘coming out’ as being inco…
Extending the moral economy beyond households: Gendered livelihood strategies of single migrant women in Accra, Ghana
Accomplishing information and change in a smart grid pilot: Linking domestic practices with policy interventions
Behind the roll-out of smart metering technologies lies a belief that personalised, fact-based information enhances energy awareness and allows consumers to modify their behaviour. Amongst others, practice theoretical accounts have shown that this belief stems from a linear, individualistic and unrealistic interpretation of behaviour change. However, in emphasising how energy use is grounded in socio-material realities of everyday life, practice-…
History and Institutions in the Rebuilding of Social Capital after Forced Resettlement in the Philippines and Indonesia
Resettlement results in the loss of social capital from which poor households can draw resources for sustenance, survival and wellbeing. While Putnam deems social capital formation as pre-determined by a community’s history of civic engagement, the institutional view argues that social capital is generated through the institutions’ interventions. Utilising a comparative approach involving two resettlement sites, one in the Philippines and one in …
Educational Migrants, ICTs and Socio-Spatial Relationships: Establishing Presence from a Distance
Previous research on transnational migration and information and communication technologies (ICTs) demonstrated how ICTs shape transnational social relationships. What remains less explored is how ICTs shape spatial dimensions of such relationships. Also, international educational migrants constitute a substantial part of transnational migration flow, yet their everyday lives are not well studied. Building upon material semiotic scholarship, we e…
Snacking practices in school: Othering and deviance in a health-normative context
Many public health interventions encourage healthy behaviours by strengthening health norms within schools or workplaces. Such health norms and health-normative contexts can also produce social hierarchies and forms of othering, including unhealthy ‘deviant’ behaviours. This article aims to better articulate how deviance is produced in a health normative school context. We approach the interplay between a health-oriented environment and deviance …
Customer is king”: Staging consumer culture in a food aid organization
This paper intervenes in critical debates on the role of charitable food aid in meeting the material, social, emotional, and cultural needs of the people who depend on this aid. It offers a detailed case study of a social grocery in Belgium that attempts to circumvent the power inequalities and negative social and emotional impacts of charitable giving through staging consumer culture, and treating clients as customers. This is accomplished with …
Backlash against Meat Curtailment Policies in online discourse: Populism as a missing link
Given overwhelming evidence that current levels of meat consumption jeopardize human and planetary health, there is a need for governmental action to reduce meat consumption (i.e., Meat Curtailment Policies, or MCPs). However, few such policies are actually being implemented, in part due to fear of backlash. Better understanding the ideological underpinning of backlash is thus crucial for designing strategies that can further the much needed tran…
Murky moralities: Performing Markets in a Charitable Food Aid Organization
This paper explores how competing moralities are brought together in the performance of a market for charitable food aid. Markets, rather than functioning as neutral technologies for bringing together supply and demand, are thoroughly moral phenomena. In markets, calculative devices are crucial for realizing exchange, by facilitating mutual agreement on price and quality. However, such practices of calculation can violate moralities of charity. T…
What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation
There is increasing recognition that sustainable diets need to be ‘culturally appropriate’. In relation to food consumption, however, it is often unclear what cultural appropriateness–or related terms, such as cultural or social acceptability–actually means. Often these terms go undefined, and where definitions are present, they vary widely. Based on a systematic literature review this paper explores how cultural appropriateness of food consumpti…
Game changers for meat and masculinity? Male athletes’ perspectives on mixed and plant-based diets
The dietary choices of male athletes are increasingly a topic of moral and nutritional debate. Though it has long been a consensus that athletes require animal products to advance their athletic goals, this understanding is now challenged in academic and popular sources based on nutritional evidence and concern about the environmental impacts of animal products. In order to better understand how (semi-)professional male athletes perceive plant-ba…
Beef or Beet Wellington? Chefs, meat reduction, and hindering and supportive forms of craftsmanship
One of the most effective ways to mitigate climate change is to shift to more plant-based consumption practices. In this context, hands-on professionals in the food sector such as chefs are often seen as change-makers. Yet, most restaurants in wealthier countries predominantly serve meat and fish. In this paper, we use chefs and their embodied relationship with food as a case, and combine theories of practice and craftsmanship, to better understa…
The politics of transdisciplinary research on societal transitions
Within research on societal transitions, ‘post-normal’ scientific approaches such as transdisciplinary research are increasingly prominent. The difficulties of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are well-established, but less attention has been paid to the underlying causes of these difficulties. In this essay, we argue that the political natures of both ‘transdisciplinarity’ and ‘transitions’ themselves underlie the more visible re…
Understanding how social policy impacts health: A realist synthesis
Recognition that health should be considered in all policies is growing, highlighting the need to understand how social policies impact health. Social assistance benefits interventions (SABPI) and debt policy interventions (DPI) are particularly relevant, as they directly shape people’s access to resources and exposure to burdens, triggering responses that generate health outcomes. This study synthesizes the literature on how this works using a r…
Forms of autonomy and dependence in food aid: Unravelling How They Are Related and Perceived by Recipients
Dependence is an inherent aspect of human existence, yet independence and autonomy are powerful ideals, especially where they seem lacking. In the case of food aid, the dependence that it signifies is often experienced as shameful. Food justice scholars and practitioners advocate that people with low incomes should have greater autonomy in exercising their right to food, for example by receiving cash transfers instead of food donations. In this p…
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