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WHO NEEDS FOOD SECURITY MEASURES & WHY?

WHO NEEDS FOOD SECURITY MEASURES & WHY?. FRAMING / NARRATIVE. FRAMING / NARRATIVE. Despite limitations one/two headline indicators are seductive headline grabbing, and influential What are they useful for? Measuring progress ...but also...

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WHO NEEDS FOOD SECURITY MEASURES & WHY?

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  1. WHO NEEDS FOOD SECURITY MEASURES & WHY?

  2. FRAMING / NARRATIVE

  3. FRAMING / NARRATIVE • Despite limitations one/two headline indicators are seductive headline grabbing, and influential What are they useful for? • Measuring progress ...but also... • Framing issues, challenges, agendas: telling compelling stories

  4. UNDERSTANDINGLIVED EXPERIENCES www.oxfam.org.uk/foodprices

  5. UNDERSTANDING LIVED EXPERIENCES Context: • Individual situations, behavioural responses >> building up to an understanding of system-wide effects What’s useful? • Situating / triangulating in-depth qualitative findings • Self-reported experiences of food security outcomes • Understanding transitory/acute food insecurity as well as chronic FI • Capturing impacts of shocks on malnourishment as well as undernourishment • (Preferences / adaptations)

  6. PROGRAMME / RESPONSE DESIGN

  7. PROGRAMME / RESPONSE DESIGN • Household Economy Analysis • Rapid appraisals • IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) What’s useful? • Determinants as well as outcomes • Early warning • Understanding chronic as well as acute stressors

  8. MORE USEFULLESS USEFUL • Scalable • Internationally comparable • Individual disaggregation • esp. by gender • Timely • able to capture transitory, seasonal FI as well as chronic FI • Conceptual clarity • maps to / transcends availability, access, utilisation, stability domains • SOFI suite • VOH (?) • Proliferation / duplication • Indices with arbitrary / opaque weightings • Easily misused, misinterpreted • Displacing rich qualitative analysis

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