Ppt session 9 4-2 food security indicators

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Food Security Indicators2010-2013

Arthur JorariStatistics for Development Division

Food security as defined

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to

sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active

and healthy life.(World Food Summit, 1996/2009)

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Food Security Indicators: 2010 – 2013

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The four dimensions of food security

1. Availability2. Access 3. Utilization4. Stability


The four dimensions of food security (2)1. Food Availability refers to the physical existence of food, be it from own

production or on the markets.

2. Food Access is ensured when all households and all individuals within those households have sufficient resources to obtain appropriate foods for a nutritious diet.

o Depends on the level of household resources -capital, labour, and knowledge, and also on prices;

o Function of the physical environment, social environment and policy environment, which determine how effectively households are able to utilize their resources to meet their food security objectives; and

o Drastic changes in conditions, such as during periods of drought or social conflict, may seriously disrupt food production and threaten the food access of affected households.


The four dimensions of food security (3)

3. Food Utilization has a socio-economic and a biological aspect. If sufficient and nutritious food is both available and accessible:o socio-economic

o households make decisions/choices on what food to consume (demand) and how the food is allocated within the household;

o Unequal distribution leads to suffering from food deficiency; o the same is true if the composition of the consumed food is unbalanced;

o biological utilization of food – Focused at the individual level food security, which refers to the ability of the human body to take food and translate it into either energy that is used to undertake daily activities or is stored.

Utilization requires not only an adequate diet, but also:– a healthy physical environment, including safe drinking water and adequate

sanitary facilities (so as to avoid disease); and– an understanding of proper health care, food preparation, and storage

processes.


The four dimensions of food security (4)

4. Food Stability refers to the temporal dimension of nutrition security - i.e. the time frame over which food security is being considered. o Distinction of chronic food insecurity - the inability to meet food

needs on an ongoing basis; and o transitory food insecurity when the inability to meet food needs is of

a temporary nature; • cyclical (where there is a regular pattern to food insecurity, for example,

the "lean season" that occurs in the period just before harvest); and• temporary (which is the result of a short-term, exogenous shock such as

droughts or floods). Also civil conflict belongs to the temporary category, although the negative impact on food security often continues over long periods of time.


Achievements/Highlights 1. Awareness presentation at the HOPS Meeting, July 2010;

2. PSSC Meeting, March 2011 – technical meeting on integrating agriculture questions into Population and Housing Censuses;

3. Awareness presentation at SBS Samoa, April 2011;

4. Awareness presentation at FIBOS Fiji, November 2011;

5. Presentation and group work in collaboration with FAO at the regional Workshop on integrating agriculture questions into population and housing censuses, Noumea, May 2012.

6. FS indicators definition work attachment in collaboration with FIBOS and VNSO (National Consultant) – October 2012

7. Awareness presentation in November 2012 – SPC Trade Statistics Workshop, Noumea.

8. June 2013 – continue work started in October, 20128


Major challenges 1. Too much “toktok” but less real commitment

to progress work;

2. There are no additional resources at the national and regional levels;

3. Lack of coordination among stakeholders – at both the national and regional levels

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Future activities 1. Define the minimum indicators required at the

national level using the SPC Minimum Development Indicator List as the basis for discussion, considering the indicator requirements of the key pillars as well as the underlying factors (work in progress now);

2. Determine priority list for immediate compilation or collection which could be done through a national food security stakeholder workshop series;

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Future activities (1) 3. Having agreed on the minimum national level

priority indicators, review data availability from existing collection systems; and organize data mining/extraction from these and other secondary sources, which will then form countries’ core food security database to assist in food security monitoring, and evaluations;

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Future activities (2) 4. Following this situational assessment or stock-

take of what data are available, identify means/ processes to make such data more readily accessible. This is a classical and perennial problem facing all statistical agencies in collecting far more data and statistics than are subsequently published (made accessible) or converted into information;

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Future activities (3) 5. This stock-take also serves as a gap analysis

highlighting existing data holes and deficiencies (where statistics are neither available nor accessible) which should then provide unambiguous directions of what additional statistics need to be collected to allow the development of key food security indicators;

6. Obtain political sign-off that the collection and compilation of food security related statistics and indicators are a national development priority;

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Future activities (4) 7. Mobilize domestic and international resources to

support food security indicators related work;8. Think laterally and act smart, and look for ways to

make such data collections sustainable (and regular), by developing specific stand-alone modules that can be integrated in population and housing censuses or standard HIES/DHS surveys, etc;

9. Disseminate results in PRISM and national statistical websites and through other appropriate mediums.

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Discussion points for HOPS Food security has global attention as a result of its link to the effects of climate change and PICTs are expected to lead in producing the expected FS statistics and indicators. Therefore HOPS meeting is invited to:

• Note TYPSS Phase-1 mid-term review Recommendations 1-3;• Note the very slow progress in implementing, lack of national and regional coordination, and lack

of additional resource support at the national and regional levels;• Further note the proposed future activities and discuss resource implications at the national and

regional levels;

• Recommend way forward....SPC will proceed in line with food security being one of its multi-sectoral corporate priorities (2013-2017), form a technical working group to develop a proposed strategy which we will make available to HOPS members out of session.

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