Quiz 3 Flashcards
What is the most abundant test for measuring food insecurity?
A widely used indicator at the global level is produced by FAO.
The FAO measure of hunger or food deprivation, referred as ‘undernourishment’, is based on a comparison of usual food consumption expressed in terms of dietary energy (kcal) with minimum energy requirement norms. The part of the population with food consumption below the minimum energy requirement is considered undernourished.
Around 800 million people are food insecure, but is not a right number
Decision-makers at all levels need accurate information about
- Severity of FI
- Duration
- Vulnerability
Household Food Economy
The household food economy approach uses a model to estimate who is at risk of future food insecurity.
The HFE method has mainly been used to assess food crises, where temporary shocks have left large numbers of people food insecure. It has not been widely applied to assess chronic food insecurity.
Is it enough to make a decision on data and information on the incidence and nature of food insecurity only?
No, we also need underlying causes to create appropriate supportive programs
Conceptual frameworks are
tools to improve our understanding of complex realities, processes and linkages, often through an illustration of these complexities in a simplified diagram.
Basic causes of child malnutrition
Human,economics, organizational resources, inadequate education
Political and ideological factors
Underlying causes of child malnutrition
Inadequate access to food
Inadequate care for child and woman
Insufficient health services and unhealthy environment
Immediate causes of child malnutrition
Inadequate dietary intake
Disease
The main focus of food security framework is
Economic approach in which food as a commodity is a central focus
The main focus of Malnutrition framework is
Biological approach in which the human being is the starting point
livelihoods framework have ____ in the center
People
Livelihoods approaches draws attention to
the way people live, why they live that way, and why and how this way of life changes. It intervenes both long and short term cases.
Why frameworks neglect other issues ( each framework is good for different things)
Any conceptual framework is a simplification of reality. It will inevitably help analysts to focus on specific aspects of the problem
Where(province) is the highest prevalence of food insecure people in Canada?
In Nunavut and the Northwest Territories
