Margaret Buchanan-Smith

Biographic Data

ID6323892
NAMEMargaret Buchanan-Smith
GIVEN NAMESMargaret
FAMILY NAMEBuchanan-Smith
SIGNATUREBUCHANAN-SMITH M
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
H-INDEX2

  • Linking Relief and Development

    Open AccessMargaret Buchanan‐smith, Margaret Buchanan-Smith et al.ARTICLEIDS Bulletin1994Cited by: 13References: 19

    Linking relief and development' is one description of this idea. Others include the 'relief-development continuum', the 'interface between relief and development', 'relief-development strategies' and 'famine mitigation'

  • Linking Relief and Development

    Open AccessMargaret Buchanan‐smith, Margaret Buchanan-Smith et al.ARTICLEIDS Bulletin1994References: 4

    Botswana has been held up as a success story for the performance of its drought relief programme during the 1980s'. Whilst famine swept through so many other African countries during the widespread drought of the mid 1980s, Botswana stood out for its achievement in preventing famine. The country suffered from a prolonged and severe drought from 1981/82 to 1987/88. But there was no significant evidence of starvation deaths nor distress migration. …

  • Food Security

    Open AccessMargaret Buchanan‐smith, Margaret Buchanan-Smith et al.ARTICLEIDS Bulletin1994Cited by: 2References: 2

    very poor poor adequate adequate adequate 13 ConflIct as a barrier to response yes yes no no no

  • Drought and famine in Africa

    Open AccessMargaret Buchanan‐smith, Margaret Buchanan-Smith et al.ARTICLEFood Policy1992Cited by: 1

  • Is Food Security Targeting Possible in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from North Sudan

    Open AccessSimon Maxwell, Jeremy Swift et al.ARTICLEIDS Bulletin1990References: 1

    Targeting food security interventions in sub?Saharan Africa presents special difficulties and has rarely been successful. A case study of Darfur in Western Sudan shows that targeting can be improved. The key is to focus not just on safeguarding current income and food consumption, but also on long term livelihood interventions that reduce vulnerability; and to do this with programmes which are geographically specific, self?targeting in administra…