Author(s): Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; World Food Programme

Publisher address: Sales & Marketing Group, Communication Div., Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy; FAO. Fax (+39) 06 57053360. E-mail publications-sales@fao.org. www.fao.org

Publication Year: 2009

Language(s): English

ISBN: 9789251061596

This book provides guidelines for FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Missions (CSFAM) which are intended to offer basic information and practical guidance for anyone who participates in a FAO/WFP mission, whether as a FAO/WFP core team member, a government or other agency participant or a donor observer. The guidelines can also be of use to organizations and individuals who provide information for such a mission or need to use the findings of a CFSAM report. The guidelines comprise 6 parts with the following headings: CFSAM essentials (3 chapters, Why and when a CFSAM, Main CFSAM principles, CFSAM concepts, methods and processes); Planning and organizing a CFSAM (2 chapters, Preparatory steps and pre-mission planning, Work during the mission); Analysing the context, agricultural production and market conditions (3 chapters, Understanding the crisis background and socio-economic context, Assessing agricultural production, Analysing market conditions); Analysing the aggregate food supply/demand situation (4 chapters, Drawing up and interpreting the staple food balance sheet, Estimating and forecasting stocks, Estimating domestic food utilization requirements, Forecasting external commercial trade); Analysing household food security and emergency needs (1 chapter, Assessing and analysing household food security and needs); and Conclusions and recommendations (3 chapters, Conclusions, Analysing response options, Formulating recommendations). The following 20 Annexes are also included: Annotated outline for a CFSAM report; Complementary inputs of FAO and WFP team members during a CFSAM; Checklist of actions for the FAO and WFP country offices; Sample TORs for individual team members; Guidelines for observers; Secondary data to be compiled prior to the mission; Use of Geo-Spatial information; Sample mission schedule and work plan format; How to get the most out of field trips and interviews; A framework for analysing the food security impacts of a crisis; Factors affecting agricultural production; Factors affecting planted area; Factors affecting yield; Market surveys; Examples of staple food balance sheets for three main types of food crisis; Methods used to assess household food insecurity; Sample multidisciplinary interview guide and data recording format; Sample market details interview guide and data recording format; Numerical conventions, weights and measures; and List of technical and reference notes (on CD-ROM).

Section: Economics

Keywords: BOOKS; FOOD AID; FOOD SECURITY; GUIDELINES

Pages: 319pp.

Book

Accession number: 2009-10-Da0449

Date added: 20-Jul-2009

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