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Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Monitoring (FIVIMS) |
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Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems
(FIVIMS)
is an Inter-agency initiative to promote information and mapping
systems on food insecurity and vulnerability. FIVIMS are any
systems that assemble, analyse and disseminate information
on who the food insecure are, where they are located, and
why they are food insecure, nutritionally vulnerable or at
risk. The World Food Summit Plan of Action (WFS, Rome, November
1996) recommended that such systems be established at the
global, national and subnational levels in efforts to achieve
Summit goals of reducing undernutition and achieving food
security for all.
The idea behind FIVIMS is that improved information can be
actively used to produce better results in efforts to reduce
the number of undernourished and achieve food security for
all. The acronym FIVIMS refers to the overall framework and
the concepts and ideas associated with it, and not to any
one particular system or network of systems.
The core
functions of FIVIMS are:
- Development
of a consensus among donors and technical agencies on best
practices in food security information system work at country
level and across a variety of socio-economic circumstances;
- Insistence
on greater co-ordination among donor and technical agency
efforts in food security information system work, especially
in the poorest countries, since duplication of effort can
not be justified;
- Linking
information systems to remedial action programs and evaluating
the impact of these combined programs on real reductions
over time in the number of undernourished (in the shorter
run) and the number of the poor and vulnerable (in the longer
run)
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Web Resources : |
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Improving
the Analysis of Food Insecurity. Food insecurity measurement,
livelihoods approaches and policy: applications in FIVIMS,
S. Devereux, B. Baulch, K. Hussein, J. Shoham, H. Sida and D.
Wilcock, September 2004 PDF |
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Background
Papers to the above |
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Assessing
Food Insecurity and Vulnerability using Household Survey Data,
Bob Baulch PDF |
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The
Relevance of Livelihoods Approaches to Food Insecurity Measurement,
Karim Hussein, PDF |
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A
Case for the Integration of Nutrition Indicator Monitoring with
National and Sub-national Livelihoods Based FIVIMS,
Jeremy Shoham PDF |
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Agency Approaches to Monitoring Food
Security and Livelihoods, Helen Sida, PDF |
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Institutional Issues in FAO Regarding
the Design and Implementation of Global and National FIVIMS,
David Wilcock PDF |
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Reducing
Poverty and Food Insecurity: The Role for Information Systems
Using National Surveys, Farm Management Data, and Other Sources
of Personal and Livelihood Vulnerability Information,
David Wilcock PDF |
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