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Book (stand-alone)Participatory appraisal of nutrition and household food security situations and planning of interventions from a livelihoods perspective 2003
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No results found.The present guide is based on the experiences gained from FAO executed projects in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Zambia. The projects were community-based and aimed at improving nutrition, household food security and poverty alleviation. The aim of this guide is to provide a methodology for persons tasked with the responsibility of appraising and analysing nutrition and household food security situations with a view to use this information for project design, planning and evaluation. The users may be external consultants or resource persons, as well as field staff involved in projects or programs. -
Book (stand-alone)Deriving Food Security Information fromNational Household Budget Surveys
Experiences, Achievements, Challenges
2008Also available in:
No results found.The introductory paper in Part 1 summarizes the efforts and lessons learned from experiences in participating countries to improve food security statistics. Part 2 deals with food security estimates performed at national and sub-national levels in four countries. The papers of Cambodia and the Philippines are examples of food security statistics with gender analysis, while the Lao PDR and Mozambique papers are examples of sub-national analysis. Part 3 addresses measurement approaches of food acquisition and food consumption for the purpose of estimating food security statistics. The examples of Armenia, Cape Verde and Kenya depict detailed effects of how food data are collected on estimates of food security statistics in different settings. Part 4 reviews the policy implications of food security statistics on agriculture in Palestine and food security statistics trends in Moldova. Part 5 shows examples of enhanced analyses using panel data on food consumption in T ajikistan while linking child nutritional status with food security statistics in Georgia. Part 6 proposes methodological approaches for improving food security statistics for policy analysis; the first paper discusses household resilience to food insecurity using Palestinian data, while the last paper describes the linkage between critical food poverty and food deprivation. Finally, Part 7 provides a glossary of selected terminology related to food security statistics. -
DocumentEvaluation of Improving Household Food Security and Nutrition in the Luapula Valley Project (IHFSAN)
Report of the Evaluation Mission
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No results found.High rates of chronic and acute malnutrition in Luapula valley were the starting point for the IHFSAN project. Causes of malnutrition in Luapula valley were identified as: i) household food insecurity; ii) poor health, water and sanitation; iii) poor knowledge base; and iv) inadequate care for the nutritionally vulnerable. This analysis was confirmed by a participatory rural appraisal carried out by FAO in 1996 in preparation for the project. The project started operations of its present phase i n 1997 and will conclude in December 2001. The original budget of US$ 3,314,000 was increased to US$ 3,651,035 following a tri-partite review in 1999; by mid-2001 US$ 3,037, 979 were spent.
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