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1. ASSESSING
FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL
SECURITY
SEMINAR TOPIC

2. Assessment
 Assessment means judgment, appraisal, estimation or
evaluation.
 It is a process that is used to understand a situation in
order to make decisions on whether there is a need to
respond to a hazard or to a situation that can lead to a
disaster if nothing is done.
 The assessment must collect information that will allow a
good analysis of the situation and the threats to life, human
dignity, health and livelihoods of the population.

4. food security assessment
 Food security assessments are no different from general
assessments in their aim, but look more specifically at how people
try to maintain a secure food environment for themselves, and
whether they succeed.
 The general objective of a food security assessment is to
understand how severe the food insecurity is, and why this is the
case.
 Then the objective is to determine if there is a need to intervene
to return people to a normal food security situation in the short
term and/or long term.
 Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) has evolved significantly during
the last decades in theory and practice. This overview provides
some basic information about the current understanding on FNS.

5. Food Security
•( Evolved over time from 'freedom from hunger' in the early
1940s into broad concept ) IT MEANS
• THE 4 DIMENSIONS:
ACCESSIBILITY TO FOOD AVAILABILITY OF FOOD
UTILIZATION & STABILITY AFFORDABILITY

6. FOOD SECURITY CAN BE DEFINED AS
• A state wherein all people, at all times, have
physical, social and economic access to sufficient,
safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary
needs and food preferences for an active and
healthy life.
• based on FAO definition (1996, 2009)

7. NUTRITION SECURITY
•(Evolved over time from 'Multi- sectorial nutrition planning' approach in the 1970s
and UNICEF conceptual framework)
• WITH THE 3 DETERMINANTS:
– ACCESS TO ADEQUATE FOOD CARE AND FEEDING PRACTICES
–
SANITATION AND HEALTH

8. NUTRITION SECURITY CAN BE DEFINED AS
• All people at all times have physical, social and
economic access to food, which is safe and consumed
in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their
dietary needs and food preferences and is supported
by environment of adequate sanitation, health
services and care allowing for healthy and active life
• ( COMMITTE ON WFS 2012)
45%Of all child deaths are associated with poor nutrition

9. ACCORDING TO CURRENT STATISTICS
•1 billion in sufficient kcals and nutrients (hunger)
•2 billion sufficient kcals ,but insufficient nutrients
(hidden hunger)
•3 billion sufficient kcals and nutrients (healthy)
•1.4 billion excess kcals (some with insufficient
nutrients)(over weight/ obesity)

10. MAJOR PROBLEM TO ASSESS
• Lack of quality data to assess progress, identify actions,
improve accountability
Its hard to meet nutrition goals if you don’t have data on nutrition
49%
Of countries do not have enough data
to assess if they are on course/off
course of global targets

11. Global targets 2025
2012
world health
assembly
Stunting
Anemia
Lbw
Childhood obesity
Breast feeding
wasting

13. ENSURING FOOD SECURITY
• Enough food should be available for all
persons of that city, state or country
• All persons should have capacity to buy food
of acceptable quality
• There must be no barrier on access to food

15. NEED FOR SECURITY
• Poor section of society natural disasters or calamity
widespread crop failure

16. HOW DROUGHT EFFECTS FOOD SECURITY ?
• Drought
• Total production of food grains
• Shortage of food in affected areas
• Hike in prices
• Below poverty people cannot afford to buy food
• Food insecurity

17. LEADS TO
• STARVATION
• If such calamities happens in wide spread area or is stretched over
a longer time period, it causes situation of starvation
• FAMINE
A massive starvation might take a turn of famine, it is characterized
by widespread deaths and epidemics

19. DEATHS IN INDIA DUE TO FAMINES AND STARVATION
• Bengal famine ,1943
• Killed 1.5 million-3 million
• Bihar famine ,1996-7
• 2,353 deaths due to starvation reported
• Starvation deaths have also been reported in
• 1.kalahandi and Kashipur in Orissa
• 2.Baran district of Rajasthan
• 3.Palamau district of Jharkhand and many other
remote areas during the recent years

20. STATES FACING PROBLEMS OF FOOD INSECURITY
• Uttar Pradesh(eastern and south-eastern parts)
• Jharkhand
• Orissa
• West Bengal
• Chhattisgarh
• Parts of
Madhya Pradesh &
Maharasthra

21. FOOD INSECURE GROUPS
• Worst affected groups
• Landless people
• Traditional artisans
• Traditional service providers
• Petty self employed workers
• Homeless, beggars etc.
• Families employed in ill paid occupations
• Casual labourers (seasonal activities+ very low wages)
• Sc’s,St’s and some sections of OBC’s having poor land base or low land
productivity
• Migrants
• Women and children

22. HUNGER, ANOTHER ASPECT OF FOOD INSECURITY
Chronic
hunger
Seasonal
hunger
Inadequate diet
for long time
Poor people
suffer from
chronic hunger
Due to
agricultural
activities-rural
regions &urban
areas-casual
labor
When a person is
unable to get
work for entire
year

23. OTHER MAJOR ASPECT IS FOOD WASTAGE

24. INDIA’S ATTEMPTS AT ATTAINING FOOD SECURITY
• Green revolution: Food grain production
HIGHEST
GROWTH
PUNJAB &
HARYANA
TAMIL NADU
AND ANDHRA
PRADESH
LOW
GROWTH
MAHARASHTRA,
MADHYA
PRADESH
BIHAR,ORISSA
AND NE STATES

25. INDIA’S FOOD SECURITY SYSTEM
BUFFER
STOCK
PUBLIC
DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM
FOOD
AND
NUTRITION
SECURITY
SYSTEM OF
INDIA

26. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES

27. SOME WAYS FOR ACHIEVING
FOOD SECURITY
• Greater public investment to achieve greater production
efficiency
• Investment and development should be increased
• Nutritional education and awareness
• Agricultural development and increase in agricultural
productivity
• Comprehensive and coordinated national efforts
• Need to have necessary policy initiatives to increase
supply in future

32. CONCLUSION
• Accessibility ,availability and socio economic factor and
utilization of available foods influence most on security
of food and nutrition.
• Factors that affect food security system are influenced
by environmental condition, like climate ,soil , water
availability etc.
• Moreover it depends on production of raw materials
(foods that are consumed),and population of particular
country.
• As of Indian population due more number of birth rate
every day it is impossible to balance the food needs and
security in both national and house hold levels. So ,many
steps and programs are implemented to overcome this
problem.

33. • Even in house hold levels the economic status of the
people play important role,ie below poverty level people
cannot afford for food regularly
• Food and nutritional security should be at top of our
agendas
• We need solutions that bridge incredible potential from
interdisciplinary research, engineering ,nutrition ,food
science ,economics , agri science, social work, community
development and informatics
• Advances in diagnostic technologies should provide
critical data to assess progress, identify actions, improve
accountability