ifpri: global food security portal (1)
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Food Security Portal: a clearinghouse of data, tools, and a policy network for Food security
Maximo ToreroInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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A dedicatedplace to find Food security
data and tools?
Policy Network
Policy Dialogues
169,862Total visitsTotal visits
AMIS:
FSP:
Data
* Data sources
Agricultural Land (% of total area)Agriculture Value Added
Calorie Supply Per Capita, Crops EquivalentCalorie Supply per Capita, Livestock Equivalent
Children Undernourished (%)Commodities Futures Data
CountriesCPI
External Debt (% of GNI)Foreign Direct Investment (Current $US) )
GDP (current $US ) S)Global Hunger Index x
Global Inflation Dataset tGNI per Capita (current $US)
Maize ExportsMaize ImportsMaize Prices
Maize ProductionNational Poverty Rates (%)
PopulationPopulation Density
PricePopulation Undernourished (%)
Receipts of Food Aid (cereals)RegionsRice ExportsRice ImportsRice PricesRice ProductionSoybean ExportsSoybean ImportsSoybean Production
Under 5 Mortality Rate (per 1,000)UnemploymentWeekly Commodities PricesWheat Exports
Wheat ImportsWheat PricesWheat ProductionWorld Commodity PricesWorld Maize PriceWorld Oil PriceWorld Rice PriceWorld Soybean PriceWorld Wheat
Tools
Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/policy‐analysis‐tools/excessive‐food‐price‐variability‐early‐warning‐system
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/hard‐wheat‐price‐volatility‐alert‐mechanism
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/commodities
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
Food Security Media Analysis (FOMA) System
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/policy‐analysis‐tools/food‐security‐media‐analysis‐foma
Welfare impact of changing food prices: online simulator
1. Single household simulations
2. Country level simulations
Descriptive statistics
Food consumption patterns
Welfare impact
Poverty impact
Country representative
household surveys
What is the welfare impact of changing
food prices?
Define Food price
changes
User‐defined parameters
Welfare impact of changing food prices: online simulator(developer testing site)
User defined‐parameters
• Option to simulate consumption and production elasticities•This captures substitutions effects
Simulation results
1. Single household simulations
2. Country level simulations
Descriptive statistics
Food consumption patterns
Welfare impact
Poverty impact
Country representative
household surveys
What is the welfare impact of changing
food prices?
Define Food price
changes
User‐defined parameters
Current programming development stage: GuatemalaInitial set of countries for which data is available:
•Latin America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Ecuador, Peru•Africa: Kenya, Ghana•Asia: Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam
Additional datasets can enter the system over time
Welfare Impact of Changing Food Prices: Online Simulator
Policy dialogues & Networkways to create policy influence
Commodity price volatility in Central America
Cross C
ountry Learning, Prio
rity‐setting and Po
licy Influ
ence
Evidence based
Research
Food Security Portal:
Price volatility tool
Staple Commodity price data
Central AmericaNetwork
Newscovering Central America
Sectoral Policy
Dialogues
For
Price
Volatility
International Pub
lic Goo
ds
Strengthen
ed Capacity
and
Increased Use of FSP
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Conclusion
Food Security Challenges
Open data Open tools
Policy network
Policy dialogues
Food Security
Policy Influence
Next Steps
•FSP for Sub‐Saharan Africa – EC support•FSP for India – SDC Support•FSP for Central America – USAID support