The Four Dimensions of Food Security

Question 1

Chronic food insecurity is _______

Answer 1

is long-term or persistent.

Question 2

What occurs when people are unable to meet their minimum food requirements over a sustained period of time?

Answer 2

Chronic food insecurity

Question 3

What results from short-term shocks and fluctuations in food availability and food access (year-to-year variations in domestic food production, food prices, and household incomes)?

Answer 3

Transitory food insecurity

Question 4

__________ is short-term, unpredictable and temporary.

Answer 4

Transitory food insecurity

Question 5

What results from extended periods of poverty, lack of assets, and inadequate access to productive or financial resources?

Answer 5

Chronic food insecurity

Question 6

How can Chronic food insecurity be possibly overcame?

Answer 6

It can be possibly overcome with long-term development measures used to address poverty, more direct access to food to enable them to raise their productive capacity

Question 7

How can Transitory food insecurity be possibly overcame?

Answer 7

with early warning capacity and safety net programs

Question 8

What are the four pillars of food security?

Answer 8

• Availability - Access - Utilization - Stability

Question 9

Physical availability of food addresses the ___ side of food security and is determined by the level of ____, ____ levels, and _____

Answer 9

Physical availability of food addresses the supply side of food security and is determined by the level of food production, stock levels, and net trade?

Question 10

What addresses incomes, expenditure, markets and prices in achieving food security objectives?

Answer 10

Economic and physical access to food

Question 11

What is Food utilization?

Answer 11

The way the body makes the most of various nutrients in food.

Question 12

Food utilization addresses good _____ and ______ practices, food _____, _____ of the diet and ______ distribution of food

Answer 12

Food utilization addresses good care and feeding practices, food preparation, diversity of the diet and intra-household distribution of food

Question 13

Food utilization combined with ___________ determines the nutritional status of individuals.

Answer 13

good biological utilization

Question 14

________ was adopted by FAO council .

Answer 14

The Right to Food Guidelines

Question 15

Are the Right to Food guidelines legally binding?

Answer 15

No, they are voluntary and non-legally binding

Question 16

What are the four components of food stability in terms of food security?

Answer 16

• Social - Environmental - Economic - Political SEEP

Question 17

Intermediate type of food insecurity is ____

Answer 17

seasonal food insecurity

Question 18

Seasonal food insecurity occurs when____

Answer 18

When there is a cyclical pattern of inadequate availability and access to food.
This is associated with seasonal fluctuations in the climate, cropping patterns, work opportunities (labour demand) and/or prevalence of diseases

Question 19

Acute food insecurity describes____

Answer 19

severe and life threatening situation.

Question 20

How can intensity of food insecurity may be measured?

Answer 20

It can be measured in terms of levels of food intake

Question 21

What is the measure of undernourishment (hunger) as defined by FAO?

Answer 21

The proportion of the population whose dietary energy consumption is less than a pre-determined threshold

Question 22

What are the dimensions of vulnerability?

Answer 22

3 dimensions of vulnerability:

1) vulnerability to an OUTCOME;
2) from a variety of RISK FACTORS;
3) because of an INABILITY TO MANAGE those risks.

Question 23

What is the purpose of Vulnerability Analysis (VA) and it’s uses?

Answer 23

• Vulnerability Analysis (VA) helps to design better food security responses.
• It has implications for both emergency programming and for longer-term food security policies. Allows for a more precisely targeted response than a simple estimation of the aggregate food gap.

Question 24

What are the 2 intervention options offered by VA?

Answer 24

• Reduce the degree of exposure to the hazard

- Increase the ability to cope.

Question 25

With which 3 concepts is food insecurity interconnected?

Answer 25

• Malnutrition
• Poverty
• Hunger

Question 26

What is the connection between food insecurity and hunger?

Answer 26

All hungry people are food insecure, but not all food insecure people are hungry, including those due to poor intake of micro-nutrients.

Question 27

What is malnutrition?

Answer 27

It results from deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in the consumption of macro- and/or micro-nutrients.

Question 28

Which factors determine nutritional status?

Answer 28

• the quantity and quality of foods consumed;

- the ability of the body to use them

Question 29

What are the common measure of poverty?

Answer 29

• National income poverty lines

- Individual income of less than US$1 per day.

Question 30

What measures should be taken to decrease the problem of food security?

Answer 30

Combination of income growth, supported by direct nutrition interventions and investments in health, water and education.

Question 31

What do different dimensions of poverty relate to?

Answer 31

Combination of income growth, supported by direct nutrition interventions and investments in health, water and education.