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Experiences with Partnerships Part 1, IAOS 2014Ellen Cathrine Kiøsterud, World Food Programme
Tripartite cooperation to strengthen official food security statistics
Food Security Statistics
“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”.
Definition adopted at the
1996 World Food Summit
• Food availability
• Food access
• Food utilization
• Stability across these dimensions
Food Security Statistics
Diet Quantity
• Daily food energy consumption per capita (kilocalories)
• Population with food energy-deficiency
Diet Quality
• Household with high share of energy from staples
• Household with Poor or Borderline Food Consumption
• Household with Inadequate Food Consumption
• Households with low dietary diversity
Economic Vulnerability
• Household with high percentage of expenditure on food
• Population below poverty line
• Population with food consumption below food poverty line
Nutrition
• Prevalence of wasting among children under 5 years old
• Prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years old
• Prevalence of underweight among children under 5 years old
Coping
• Coping Strategies Index
Background
Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analyses
Strategic framework
• Source of information
• Efficient use of resources
• Harmonisation
• Commitment to national capacity building
Statistics Norway’s motivation
• Extension of Institutional Cooperation programmes
• Strengthen the role of national statistics and the National Statistical Office
• Contribute to harmonisation
• Assist the UN system
Results: Disseminated statistics
• Thematic Food Security and Nutrition reports
• Food Security Atlases
• Small Area Estimation food security indicators
• Light monitoring reports
Results: Dialogue
WFP - Asia workshop on cooperation with the National Statistical Systems, February 2014