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The
goal of the Famine Early Warning
Systems Network (FEWS NET) is to strengthen the
abilities of African countries and regional organizations
to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of
timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information.
FEWS NET is a USAID-funded activity that collaborates with
international, national, and regional partners to provide
timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information
on emerging or evolving food security issues.
FEWS
NET professionals in the US and Africa monitor various data
and information—including remotely sensed data and ground-based
meteorological, crop and rangeland conditions—as early
indications of potential threats to food security. Since 2000,
FEWS NET has adopted a livelihoods framework for food security
analysis. FEWS NET implements the livelihoods approach flexibly,
according to national strategies, partners, needs, and resources.
FEWS NET has strategically modified its capacity building
strategies and information products to strengthen and deliver
a livelihoods context for interpretation of food security
and vulnerability information.
FEWS
NET also
focuses its efforts on strengthening African early warning
and response networks. Activities to do this include capacity
development, network building and strengthening, developing
policy useful information, and forming consensus about food
security problems and solutions. |
