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This is the sub module of food security, part of the module of Food security and safety. it will be delivered to students of 2nd year, department of Human nutrition and dietetics, The facilitator is Mr Sunday Francois Xavier
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Expectations
Students should be able to:
- Define key terms in the area of food security
- Explain the dimensions of food security
- .Describe the severity and duration of Food insecurity
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Students should be able to:
- Describe the human well-being using vulnerability, hunger, malnutrition and poverty
- establish the Relationship between malnutrition and food insecurity
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Students are expected to be able to explain
- Explain the importance of food security analysis
- describe the estimates of hungry people
- describe the food security conceptual frameworks
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Learning Objectives: At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- explain standard calculations of national availability;
- describe the existing methods for estimating crop production;
- identify methods for calculating household level food stocks; and
- identify key aspects to consider in planning availability assessments.
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Learning Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
• identify the most used availability indicators, at both national and household level; and
• identify the criteria for selecting the appropriate availability indicators
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At the end of this topic students should be able to :
- Describe what baseline and action-oriented assessments are;
- Identify differences in terms of purpose, scope and the use of information;
- Explain how baselines and action-oriented assessments complement each other; and
- Explain of resources and capacity required for each type of assessment.
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At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:
- Compare the various food security baseline assessment methods; and
- Understand the criteria for defining an appropriate method, building on the options available.
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•At the end of this lesson you will be able to:
- explain the purpose of food security monitoring activities;
- understand the role of early warning systems;
- appreciate how this differs from monitoring longer-term food security trends; and
- recognize how regular food security monitoring is related to baseline assessments.
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At the end of this lesson you will be able to:
• recognize how assessing livelihoods improves the analysis of food security;
• identify the main features of eight livelihoods assessment approaches; and
•Explain how different livelihood assessments help to plan interventions in different food security contexts.
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At the end of this lesson you will be able to:
• Identify indicators for each aspect of the livelihood framework;
• Recognize the criteria for selecting and collecting livelihoods indicators;
• Develop the skills and knowledge required to select, collect and interpret livelihood indicators
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At the end of the topic students should be able to :
- Define concepts related to market
- Describe how markets work
- Differentiate the types of markets
- Explain the market assessment and Analysis
- Describe the mechanisms of prices
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At the end of this lesson you will be able to:
• Define the concept of malnutrition;• Identify the factors influencing nutritional status; and• Establish the relationships between nutrition, food security, health and mortality. -
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At the end of this lesson you will be able to:
• identify strengths and weaknesses of the main sources of nutritional status information;
• understand how the analysis of underlying causes of malnutrition can integrate the results of the assessments.
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At the end of this lesson you will be able to:
•explain the key principles of targeting;•understand the steps of the targeting process;•understand the suitability of different targeting methods for given situations and target groups; and•recognize the costs and benefits of targeting. -
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