IMPACT Food Security Module

1. IMPACT Food Security Module Shahnila Islam and Daniel Mason-D’Croz

2. Post Processing Module • Malnourished Children • Per capita kilo calories • Total kilo calories • Percent Malnourished • Total Malnourished • Risk of Hunger • Relative Kilocalories • Share of population at risk of hunger • Total population at risk of hunger • Reaching Millennium Development Goals • Checking if the MDG parameter has been reached • Checking the progress towards the MDG goal

3. Malnourished Calculation • Lisa Smith and Lawrence Haddad (2000) • Per capita national food availability • Women’s education and women’s status relative to men’s • Access to safe water • IMPACT parameters • Per capital national food availability (2nd most important)

4. Smith and Haddad update (2013/2014) • Stunting and not weight for age • Percentage of food that comes from non-staples • Access to sanitation and not only access to water • Governance • Bureaucratic effectiveness • Law and order • Political stability • Restraint of corruption • Democratic accountability

5. What do the updates mean for IMPACT? • Need to update data to use stunting and not weight for age • Need to disaggregate calories from different categories (non-staples) • Other Issues • National food availability is not a very important determinant for malnourishment!

6. Share At Risk Calculation • Per capita kilo calories • Minimum kilo calories required • Relative kilo calories • Calculation following Günther Fischer, Mahendra Shah, Francesco N. Tubiello and Harrij van Velhuizen (2005)

7. Towards MDGs • Goal 1: Eradication extreme poverty and hunger • Target 1C – Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger • IMPACT Proxies • Malnourished children • Share at risk of hunger • IMPACT reports • MDG check – year in which each goal is reached • MDG progress – tracks the progress of countries towards each goal