WHO NEEDS FOOD SECURITY MEASURES & WHY?

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FRAMING / NARRATIVE

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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

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UNDERSTANDINGLIVED EXPERIENCES

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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)

UNDERSTANDING LIVED EXPERIENCES

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PROGRAMME / RESPONSE DESIGN

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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

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MORE USEFUL LESS 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