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Save
the Children UK (SCF-UK) has 80 years' experience of working
in famine relief in many parts of the world. SCF-UK realised
that a major constraint to relief intervention in famines
and food crises in Africa and Asia has been the lack of an
effective approach to famine prediction and the assessment
of food needs. In response to this, in collaboration with
the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System, Save
the Children UK developed a methodology for famine prediction,
assessment and monitoring, called the Household Economy Approach
(HEA) in the early 1990s.
The Food Security and Livelihoods Unit was established in
May 1999 to provide support in establishing food security
and vulnerability assessment systems at a national level.
It develops cutting-edge tools and methodologies which not
only enable the Unit to provide support in countries that
are most under threat from food insecurity and humanitarian
crises, but also provide the basis for broader livelihoods-based
poverty analysis.
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