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The FIVIMS Initiative
Towards an Improved Understanding of food insecurity
Glossary: food insecurity
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A situation that exists when people lack secure  access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal  growth and development and an active and healthy life. It may be caused  by the unavailability of food, insufficient purchasing power,  inappropriate distribution, or inadequate use of food at the household  level. Food insecurity, poor conditions of health and sanitation, and  inappropriate care and feeding practices are the major causes of poor  nutritional status. Food insecurity may be chronic, seasonal or  transitory. 
and vulnerability
Glossary: vulnerability
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The presence of factors that place people at risk of becoming food insecure or malnourished, including those factors that affect their ability to cope.
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More than 800 million people world-wide suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition
Glossary: malnutrition
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An abnormal physiological condition caused by deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in energy, protein and/or other nutrients. 
.  Some progress in hunger reduction and improving the nutritional status
Glossary: nutritional status
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The physiological state of an individual that results from the relationship between nutrient intake and requirements and from the body's ability to digest, absorb and use these nutrients.
of men, women and children is being achieved.  Nevertheless, insufficient investment aimed at reducing food insecurity
Glossary: food insecurity
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A situation that exists when people lack secure  access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal  growth and development and an active and healthy life. It may be caused  by the unavailability of food, insufficient purchasing power,  inappropriate distribution, or inadequate use of food at the household  level. Food insecurity, poor conditions of health and sanitation, and  inappropriate care and feeding practices are the major causes of poor  nutritional status. Food insecurity may be chronic, seasonal or  transitory. 
, hunger and malnutrition in many developing countries means that World Food Summit (WFS) and Millennium Development Goal
Glossary: Millennium Development Goal
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The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 189 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The Millennium Development Goals derive from earlier "international development goals", and were officially established at the Millennium Summit in 2000, where 189 world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, from which the eight-goal action plan, the "Millennium Development Goals", was particularly promoted. 
 (MDG) targets are unlikely to be achieved by the year 2015.  
Greater efforts in hunger reduction must be made. The FIVIMS Initiative (Food Insecurity and vulnerability
Glossary: vulnerability
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The presence of factors that place people at risk of becoming food insecure or malnourished, including those factors that affect their ability to cope.
Mapping System) promotes cross-sectoral analysis of underlying causes of food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition for improved policy making, programming and action. 

The Initiative stems from the 1996 World Food Summit, when countries in the world committed themselves to strengthen information and analysis for improved targetting of hunger reduction policies and programmes by developing food insecurity and vulnerability information and mapping systems.
 FIVIMS - Supporting knowledge sharing and good practice for better understanding of food insecurity and vulnerability issues worldwide. 
Read more about how FIVIMS works
 
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Resources

The FAO Hunger Map
The FAO Hunger Map
FAO estimates of undernourishment as a measure of hunger or food deprivation.
Food Security Statistics Module (FSSM)
Food Security Statistics Module (FSSM)
The FAO Statistics Division has developed the Food Security Statistics Module (FSSM)software to help National Statistical Organizations (NSO) to estimate food consumption and security statistics derived from food consumption data collected in National Household Surveys (NHS).
FAOSTAT database on Food Security
FAOSTAT database on Food Security
A site containing global statistical data related to food security statistics as well as reports and documents on the same subject.
Food Security Statistics by Country
Food Security Statistics by Country
This webpage displays selected food security statistics by country. These range from food consumption to food production and child nutritional status.
Food security related maps
Food security related maps
These are maps that display information on a wide range of food security aspects, from nutrition to trade to production and others.
Progress on hunger reduction by country
Progress on hunger reduction by country
This webpage provides the reader with selected data on trends in hunger reduction for the monitoring of the MDGs and the WFS targets.

Key Publications

The FAO Hunger Map
The FAO Hunger Map
FAO estimates of undernourishment as a measure of hunger or food deprivation.
FAOSTAT database on Food Security
FAOSTAT database on Food Security
A site containing global statistical data related to food security statistics as well as reports and documents on the same subject.

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Contacts

Ricardo Sibrian
Senior Statistician
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Fax: (+39)0657055615
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