RHVP is now widely known in southern Africa and beyond by its acronym - very rarely do the personnel associated with the programme have to elaborate what it stands for - the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme.
As RHVP approaches the end of a 3-year phase, it is time to stand back and take stock of progress and look to the future. Is the programme name still appropriate? This Comment argues that it's not - that a preoccupation with hunger as an outcome is constraining, and that it should actually be the Regional Vulnerability Programme. It is clearly the case that hunger and food insecurity remain major development problems in many countries, including southern Africa, but following the substantial literature on food security arising out of the paradigm shift brought about by Sen, there is now increasing recognition that vulnerability is the root cause, and hunger merely the outcome. To focus on hunger, therefore, runs a risk of ignoring the root causes of vulnerability and providing misplaced advice.
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