Presentation by Soonho Kim, IFPRI at the D8 Open Data for Agriculture Side event at IFPRI on May 1, 2013.

1. Food Security Portal: a clearinghouse of
data, tools, and a policy network for
Food security
Maximo Torero , Sara Gustafson, and Soonho Kim
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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4. Policy
Network
Policy
Dialogues

6. 169,862
Total visits

7. Data

8. * Data sources

9. Agricultural Land (% of total area)
Agriculture Value Added
Calorie Supply Per Capita, Crops Equivalent
Calorie Supply per Capita, Livestock Equivalent
Children Undernourished (%)
Commodities Futures Data
Countries
CPI
External Debt (% of GNI)
Foreign Direct Investment (Current $US) )
GDP (current $US ) S)
Global Hunger Index x
Global Inflation Dataset t
GNI per Capita (current $US)
Maize Exports
Maize Imports
Maize Prices
Maize Production
National Poverty Rates (%)
Population
Population Density
Price
Population Undernourished (%)
Receipts of Food Aid (cereals)
Regions
Rice Exports
Rice Imports
Rice Prices
Rice Production
Soybean Exports
Soybean Imports
Soybean Production
Under 5 Mortality Rate (per 1,000)
Unemployment
Weekly Commodities Prices
Wheat Exports
Wheat Imports
Wheat Prices
Wheat Production
World Commodity Prices
World Maize Price
World Oil Price
World Rice Price
World Soybean Price
World Wheat

10. Tools

11. Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/policy-analysis-tools/excessive-food-price-variability-early-warning-system

12. http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/hard-wheat-price-volatility-alert-mechanism

13. http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/commodities

14. Food Security Media Analysis (FOMA) System
This tool uses sophisticated linguistic and semantic object network-mapping algorithms
to analyze the relationships between key terms found in media articles that influence
commodity price volatility.
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/policy-analysis-tools/food-security-media-analysis-foma

15. Food Security Media Analysis (FOMA) System
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/policy-analysis-tools/food-security-media-analysis-foma

16. Policy dialogues & Network
ways to create policy influence

17. Policy
Dialogue
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Evidence
based
Research
Food
Security
Portal:
Tools
Data
Network
News
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CrossCountryLearning,Priority-settingandPolicyInfluence
Policy
Dialogue
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Policy
Dialogue
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Policy
Dialogue
1
Policy
Dialogue
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2
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InternationalPublicGoods
StrengthenedCapacityandIncreasedUseofFSPTools

18. Commodity price volatility in Central America
CrossCountryLearning,Priority-settingandPolicyInfluence
Evidence
based
Research
Food
Security
Portal:
Price
volatility
tool
Staple
Commodi
ty price
data
Central
America
Network
News
covering
Central
America
Sectoral
Policy
Dialogues
For
Price
Volatility
InternationalPublicGoods
StrengthenedCapacityandIncreasedUseofFSPTools

19. Conclusion

20. Food Security Challenges
Open data Open tools
Policy
network
Policy
dialogues
Food
Security
Policy Influence