There are 26 million refugees (“someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion” ) around the world (approximately 50% are children) along with another 45.7 million internally displaced people (“ have not crossed a border to find safety. With the number of refugees in the world continuing to rise, further efforts are required to transition from acute aid to sustainability through livelihood strategies. To assess intervention efficacy, food security should be measured with a consistent tool. Collaboration should be encouraged among aid organizations. Including host communities in food security interventions improves the refugee–host relationship. As substantiated in the literature, gender considerations are vital to the success of food security interventions, and although studies include this in the planning process, few see gender considerations through to implementation. Food security was directly measured in 39% of studies, half of which used the UN’s Food Consumption Score, and the remainder using a variety of methods. While urban agriculture was a focus of the FAO and cash/voucher interventions were implemented by the WFP, the level of collaboration between UN agencies was unclear.
Urban agriculture and nutrition education were more prevalent in destination countries. A total of 57 articles were eligible for this study with most interventions providing cash, vouchers, or food transfers urban agriculture, gardening, animal husbandry, or foraging nutrition education and infant and young child feeding. We included all articles that discussed food security interventions in refugees published between 20. This scoping review followed the guidelines set out in the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews.
Our aim is to assess what is known about food security interventions in refugees and identify existing gaps in knowledge. Food security is a complex issue and must consider gender, policies, social and cultural contexts that refugees face. Food insecurity results in malnutrition beginning at an early age and disproportionately affects certain groups such as women. There are 26 million refugees globally, with as many as 80% facing food insecurity irrespective of location.
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