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The course introduces the concepts and tools used in food security analysis. As a starting point, it defines the concept of food security and its relationship to the concepts of vulnerability, hunger, malnutrition and poverty. The course also provides guidelines on how to interpret and use conceptual frameworks for analysing food security.
The target audience of the e-learning course includes:
- Mid-level managers, technical staff, field personnel who are involved in the collection, management, analysis, and reporting of food security information.
- Planners, policy formulators and programme managers who are involved in monitoring progress in poverty reduction, and meeting food security goals and targets.
- Defining food security.
- Key dimensions of food security.
- Food security and vulnerability, hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
- Overview of food security analysis.
The course consists of 3 lessons of approximately 30 minutes duration each:
- Lesson 1 – What is Food Security?
- Lesson 2 – Concepts related to Food Security
- Lesson 3 – Food Security Analysis
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