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When Emergencies Last for Decades

How to improve food security in protracted crises








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    Cluster Coordination Guidance
    Guidance for FAO staff working at country level in humanitarian and early recovery operations
    2010
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    Audience: This guidance material is intended for FAO staff, in particular FAO Representatives and Emergency Coordinators at country level. It may also be useful for FAO staff at regional and headquarters levels and other agriculture and food-security stakeholders. Purpose: To provide FAO staff with (i) essential information on the purpose and functioning of clusters, and the role and responsibilities of FAO within a cluster system, and (ii) practical guidance on what FAO staff need t o do to fulfil those responsibilities. The focus is on clusters at the country level where FAO may lead, co-lead, or be a member of clusters dealing with food security, agriculture, livelihoods or nutrition. Structure: Part I (chapters 1 and 2) provides essential information in the form of answers to frequently asked questions. Part II (chapters 3 to 6) provides practical guidance in the form of short aide-mémoire. The annexes provide key reference materials. All chapters provide c ross-references to other documents where more detailed information and guidance can be found. The CD-ROM will include the documents referred to, with hyperlinks from the text.
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    Quand l’urgence dure plusieurs décennies
    Comment améliorer la sécurité alimentaire dans les situations de crises prolongées
    2010
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    33 pays sont actuellement confrontés à une crise de sécurité alimentaire. 14 d'entre eux subisse cette situation depuis plus d'une décennie. Quand l’urgence perdure aussi longtemps, les paradigmes traditionnels du développement et de l’aide humanitaire sont impuissants à trouver des réponses efficaces. Au lieu de privilégier les programmes de secours ad hoc, les interventions devraient adopter des stratégies à long terme et s’appuyer sur les institutions locales.
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    Food security as a policy goal in the complex emergencies context and links between information, analysis and programming
    FAO International Workshop on “Food Security in Complex Emergencies: building policy frameworks to address longer-term programming challenges” Tivoli, 23-25 September 2003
    2003
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    Countries that manifest high levels of food insecurity genearlly experience in high levels of conflict, which results in complex emergencies. These countries need to adopt well-planned, short-, medium- and long-term measures to improve their food security situation. The food security policy should cover all sectors of the food chain, including increasing food availability through production and importation, improving marketing efficiency, increasing people’s purchasing power and setting up effec tive early warning and food information systems (EWFIS). An effective EWFIS should use data spanning the entire food chain (ie meteorological, remote sensing, agricultural statistics etc). EWFIS is useful not only for monitoring the food security situation to detect areas and segments of the population that are facing deterioriating food security, but also for providing relevant data (eg baseline data, vulnerability maps etc) need for longer term planning to move the affected populations from vu lnerability to sustainable development.

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