Food Security in Africa Workshop

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Food Security in Africa Workshop
21 September 2005

• Food Security Programme and
• Discipline of Agricultural Economics
• Funded by the Ford Foundation
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Context

• This workshop was held as a pre-conference
  activity at the Agricultural Economics
  Association of South Africa (AEASA) 43rd annual
  conference at the Ranch, Polokwane, Limpopo on
  the 21 September 2005.

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Thank you

• The Ford Foundation (South Africa) is thanked for
  the generous grant that has enabled this workshop
  and allowed us to bring the case study presenters
  and a number of invited guests to the workshop.
• See a photo of the 70 workshop participants
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Food Security at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

• Training, education capacity development
• Research aimed at finding practical, sustainable
  solutions to food insecurity and hunger in
  Africa.
• Dissemination of information relating to food
  insecurity in Africa using a variety of media.
• Engagement with policy-makers and communities in
  Africa to facilitate the adoption of appropriate
  policy and effective programmes for food security
  in Africa.

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Food Security Programme at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal
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This workshop began scaling up current activities
ahead of the establishment of the African Centre
for Food Security at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg and provide a
platform for sharing information from practice in
addressing food insecurity and hunger in Africa
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Workshop Aims

• To draw together food security related
  researchers and practitioners to consider policy
  approaches, interventions and appropriate
  monitoring for food security in Africa through
  reflection on interactive case studies, and
• To share experiences and encourage adoption of
  appropriate policy and effective intervention and
  monitoring programmes for food security in Africa
  through discussion of best practices and
  lessons learnt.

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By definition

• Definitions of food security commonly include
• food supply, access to food and income to
  acquire food, adequacy, utilisation, safety and,
  in some cases, cultural acceptability of food for
  all people at all times.
• Food insecurity is simply the lack of food
  security that, at the extreme, is experienced as
  hunger.

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Programme

• Series of 6 case study presentations
• Selected from responses to an international call
  for papers
• Introduction Policy
• Interventions
• Measuring and monitoring
• Each case study was selected from submissions
  made in response to an international call.

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Workshop Programme

• Click here to access the workshop programme and
  links to presentations, narratives, abstracts and
  CVs.