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Enhancing Pacific Island Food Security Policies: Challenges and Opportunities

Explore the impact of global food price increases on Pacific Island households, addressing issues like food imports dependency and nutrition. Learn about agriculture's role in the economy, data collection challenges, and the way forward for improving food security policies.

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Enhancing Pacific Island Food Security Policies: Challenges and Opportunities

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  1. Food security – policy issues • Increased dependency on food imports – knock on impacts to health and foreign exchange • How do global food price increases affect Pacific Island households?

  2. Are households receiving adequate nutrition? 75% of Pacific Islanders die prematurely from non-communicable diseases

  3. Food security – policy issues ‘Agriculture, forestry and fisheries are the backbone of our economy’ • To what extent? Numbers employed? Which commodities? Domestic sales? Expenditure on food? Subsistence production? Contribution to GDP?

  4. Difficult to get a clear picture of food and nutritional security in the region Feeds into MDG 1,4,5 What do we need to know?

  5. Number of factors required for food security estimates • Domestic production • Imports and Exports • Seeds, waste, feed • Nutrition factors • Change in stocks • (Remittances)

  6. Food Balance Sheets Measure of food availability From stocks production imports feed, seed & waste Processing / industrial use Exports FOOD Other utilisation Nutrition factors Population Available food and nutrition per capita

  7. Trends in Energy Availability (per capita/day) 7

  8. Fat Availability (per capita/day) 8

  9. SPC/FAO –collaboration on agricultural production, trade stats and FBS • Constraints to complying with international standards and collecting primary data • Trade stats – weak customs data, classification systems, informal trade • Decisions about what is collected often outside the NSOs

  10. SPC/FAO -agricultural production, trade stats and FBS • Data may exist but sitting elsewhere – need champions • Quarantine – need to use HS classifications and record quantity accurately • FBS – accounting for tourist consumption

  11. The way forward? • Integration – better use of admin data • Assistance from FAO available for FBS if data available • Regional trade statistics database – useful for dissemination to users • Use of HIES and census data where possible – FAO scoping study

  12. Use of HIES data as proxies

  13. For discussion • How can we better capture the national food security status? • Where are the main constraints and opportunities? • Experiences with using HIES to provide information

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