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Emergency Capacity Building Project

Emergency Capacity Building Project. Nutrition, Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL) . Food Security and Livelihoods. What is food security?. Exercise . I n your groups:

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Emergency Capacity Building Project

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  1. Emergency Capacity Building Project Nutrition, Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL)

  2. Food Security and Livelihoods What is food security?

  3. Exercise In your groups: Choose three of the following statements, which you feel best describes the concept food security. Discuss what you consider to be causes of food (in)security and write down five (please try to look beyond the obvious). Food security is when a country produces enough food to feed its people Food security is not having only Thai food to eat in Thailand Food security implies always having a steady income Food security is eating more meals than you skip Food security means having three months worth of food in your pantry Being food secure is a privilege I am food secure when my food is safely locked away Food security is when people have enough money to buy food Food security is being able to eat what you want Food security is eating enough vitamins My neighbour is food secure, because he has a backyard garden Food security implies not suffering in a famine

  4. Food security • Food securityexists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for a healthy and active life (World Food Summit Plan of Action, paragraph 1, 1996 in Sphere p 108) • Various aspects/tiers • Availability • Access • Safe and nutritious (nutritional security) • Chronic versus transitory/temporary food insecurity • Famine versus food insecurity • Human right (e.g. RSA Constitution)

  5. Livelihoods • What is a livelihood? • Group exercise

  6. Livelihoods • “the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living. A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stress and shocks, maintain and enhance its capabilities and assets and provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for the next generation” (Marsland, 2003).

  7. Livelihoods Source: Majale (2002)

  8. The link between the two concepts • Livelihoods a determining factor of ‘access’. • Emergency relief (short term food security) • Livelihoods enhancing activities

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