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FOCUS ON FOOD INSECURITY AND VULNERABILITY

A review of the UN System Common Country Assessments and World Bank Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

Year of publication 2003

Pages 69

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Economic and Social Department)

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) At the request of the FIVIMS secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a review of 50 Common Country Assessment (CCA) reports and 25 Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), covering regions and countries with widely differing development status, was carried out as part of a FIVIMS/CCA integration project. The two major objectives of this review study were to assess the extent to which food insecurity and vulnerability problems are analysed and incorporated into policies, strategies and interventions, and to identify clear areas for improvement. The study was performed by an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), The Netherlands.

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