Transcript FOOD SECURITY

Promoting CARICOM/CARIFORUM Food Security (Project GTFS/RLA/141/ITA)
(FAO Trust Fund for Food Security and Food Safety – Government of Italy Contribution)
PRESENTATION TO CTA/CFNI/CARDI SEMINAR
“INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TOOLS FOR
IMPLEMENTATION OF FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
PLANS IN THE CARIBBEAN REGION.”
Belize, March 14-18, 2005
BY
SANDRA PLUMMER
FOOD SECURITY SPECIALIST
REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY PROJECT
DESCRIPTION OF PRESENTATION
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DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
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UPDATE OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES
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INFORMATION NEEDS OF EACH COMPONENT OF PROJECT
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVED COMMUNICATION
DESCRIPTION OF REGIONAL
FOOD PROJECT
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To improve food security situation of CARIFORUM Member States both
individually and collectively by increasing availability and access to adequate
quantities of safe, nutritious foods to food insecure and poor rural
communities across the Region.
OUTPUTS
• Strengthened food and nutrition, agriculture and trade and economic and
social policy framework
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Efficient, effective and sustainable water resource-related production system
resulting in increasing productivity demonstrated on a pilot basis on farms.
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
• Vertical Activities
- Demonstration Farms to improve
productivity of selected crops
• Horizontal Activities
- Linking agriculture activities to trade,
health and nutrition and community
development
VERTICAL ACTIVITIES
• Increasing output and incomes of small
farmers by utilising increased and more
efficient irrigation systems to grow more
than one crop a year
• 255 farmers across Region provided with
technical assistance, training, irrigation
equipment, farm inputs
Summary Status of Verticals (Demonstrations) at 10th March 2005
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Kitts
Nevis
St. Lucia
Grenadines
Suriname
Trinidad
& Tobago
75k
4
48k
6
204k
25
75k
35
84k
280k
16
280k
69
48k
6/3
63k
8
120k
30
225k
24
60k
7/3
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Consultant Project
Manager missions
Admin Officer missions
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FAO Technical Staff
missions
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Demo Activities
commenced
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(OK=technically cleared)
Draft Work Plan to be
revised/resubmitted
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Verticals Steering
Committee set-up
Baseline Survey
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First crop
harvested
Dec2004
Tractor
In
island
Crops
planted
Quotes
being
sought
Quotes
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Disbursements Started
St. Vincent
Grenada
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Dominica
Water Management
Specialist missions
Belize
48k
6/2
Barbados
Antigua
Barbuda
Allocation (k=‘000 US$)
Demonstrations
Bahamas
FAO CARICOM
Food Security Project
GTFS/RLA/141/ITA
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TRADE COMPONENT
• Build and strengthen the capacity within
agricultural planning and trade policy units in
member states for engaging in meaningful trade
policy analysis and participating in trade
negotiations
• Training of officials involved in planning and
trade policy activities
• Provision of technical assistance and support in
strengthening the trade-related functions within
the respective Ministries of Trade and
Agriculture.
Trade Component Activities
• Training Needs Assessment
• Review of Trade Policy Formulation Process
• National Training Workshops in Antigua,
Dominica and St Kitts on trade policy analysis
and agricultural trade negotiations
• Regional Training Course in “Trade Policy
Analysis and Agricultural Trade Agreements”
• Technical Studies on Sugar (Guyana) and
Bananas
Trade Component Activities
• Support to OECS
• Collaboration with CRNM
• Analysing international competitiveness of
selected crops (Belize)
• April-July, national seminars and workshops will
be conducted to sensitize and train persons at
the national level.
FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENTS
• Identifies the inter-sectoral linkages
among Trade, Agriculture and Health and
Nutrition
• Identifies factors at national, regional,
community and household levels which
affect food security
FIGURE 1: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT OF FOOD SECURITY:
IDENTIFICATION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS AND FACTORS AFFECTING FOOD
SECURITY
Poverty
Types of Food
NATIONAL LEVEL
Food Prices
Access to Land
(Legislation)
Marketing Intelligence
(Data Base)
Education
Food Imports
Food
Production
Public
Awareness
Access to Land (Leases)
Planning
Food
Exports
Policy
Drainage and Irrigation
Markets and Marketing
Intelligence (Location of
Markets)
REGIONAL LEVEL
Food
Production
Food
Distribution
(Imports and
Local)
Policy
Drainage and Irrigation
Planning
Farm to Market Roads
Access to Credit
Characteristics
Employment
(Dependency
Ratio)
Access to
Water
Farm to Market Roads
Access
Credit
Factors to
affecting
Exports
Socio-Economic
Health and
Nutritional
Status
Regional
Governance
Access to
Health Care
and
Nutritional
Status
Livelihood
Strategies in
Region
Health
Indicators
Nutrition
Indicators
Issues affecting
Livelihood
Strategies
Health Facilities
Nutritional Status
(Children Under 5)
Livelihood
Assets of
Vulnerable
Groups
Access to Credit
(Community
Arrangements)
Governance
Access to
Health Care
and
Nutritional
Status
Food
Distribution
(Imports and
Local)
Policy
Household Food
Production
Farm Production
Access to Credit
(Ability to Repay)
Access to Land
(Length of Lease)
Community
Issues Affecting
Livelihood Strategies
COMMUNITY
LEVEL
Drainage and Irrigation
Transportation
Costs for Food
Planning
Food
Production
Food
Availability at
Household level
(Imports and
Local)
Planning
Markets and Marketing
Intelligence(Prevention of
Gluts)
Policy
Access to Land (Land
Disputes and Land Size)
Livelihood
Strategies in
Community
Health
Services/Health
Programmes
Diseases Present
Nutritional Status of
Children Under 5
Food Prices
Type of Employment
Health Status (all
members)
HOUSEHOLD
LEVEL
Nutritional Status
(Under 5)
Food
Accessibility
at Household
level
Household Income
and Diet costs
Food Hygiene
Household
Consumption and
Nutrition Knowledge
INFORMATION NEEDS
VERTICAL ACTIVITIES
• Background Data on water quality, stream flow, well
capacity and soil analysis lacking
• Water Management Aspect of Irrigated farm
demonstration not adequately considered by countries
• Demonstration-farmers and extension officers need to
maintain detailed/accurate crop records
• Poor access and monitoring capability
• Document requirements between FAO and Member
States
INFORMATION NEEDS:TRADE
COMPONENT
• Specific data requirements for Global
Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)
• Determine objectives and outputs for
institutional strengthening activities
• Cost of Production data for specified
commodities
• Market analysis for specified commodities
INFORMATION NEEDS:FOOD
SECURITY ASSESSMENT
Categories of Indicators
• Food Availability
-Production, Imports, Exports, Stocks, Losses,
Other Uses
-Changes in quantities in markets over time
-changes in agriculture production over time
-Food Aid over time
INFORMATION NEEDS:FOOD SECURITY
ASSESSMENT
Food Accessibility
- Socio-economic monitoring of
Vulnerable Groups e.g household
income, livelihood strategies, access to
health care, access to potable water,
periods of poverty, state of health, food
hygiene, nutritional status
INFORMATION GAPS:EXPERIENCE OF
PROJECT
• Lack of baseline data on farm systems
• Lack of complete data for trade analysis
• Lack of complete data for food security
assessments
COMMUNICATION NEEDS
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Operational Level
- sharing of information within
and between departments
- stakeholders such as farmers’
organisations need to be
sensitised re trade related
issues
- improvement in the quality of
data collected by Ministries of
Agriculture and Health
COMMUNICATIONS NEEDS
• Policy Making Level
- sensitisation of policy- makers to
inter-sectoral nature of food security.
- strengthening of existing multiagency, inter-sectoral mechanisms to
address food security
-utilisation of data to plan
COMMUNICATION NEEDS
• General Public
- sensitisation of general public of link
between trade reform and food
security
- public awareness of nutrition
requirements
COMMUNICATION NEEDS:
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
• Establishment of climate of holistic
planning and operationalisation of
programmes related to food security at
all levels of system.
• Public Awareness on Food Security
can serve as push factor
Thank you