1. IMPACT Food Security Module
Shahnila Islam and Daniel Mason-D’Croz

2. Post Processing Module
• Malnourished Children
– Per capita kilo calories
– Total kilo calories
– Percent Malnourished
– Total Malnourished
• Risk of Hunger
– Relative Kilocalories
– Share of population at risk of hunger
– Total population at risk of hunger
• Reaching Millennium Development Goals
– Checking if the MDG parameter has been reached
– Checking the progress towards the MDG goal

3. Malnourished Calculation
• Lisa Smith and Lawrence Haddad (2000)
– Per capita national food availability
– Women’s education and women’s status relative to men’s
– Access to safe water
• IMPACT parameters
– Per capital national food availability (2nd most important)

4. Smith and Haddad update (2013/2014)
• Stunting and not weight for age
• Percentage of food that comes from non-staples
• Access to sanitation and not only access to water
• Governance
– Bureaucratic effectiveness
– Law and order
– Political stability
– Restraint of corruption
– Democratic accountability
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5. What do the updates mean for IMPACT?
• Need to update data to use stunting and not weight for age
• Need to disaggregate calories from different categories (non-
staples)
• Other Issues
– National food availability is not a very important determinant for
malnourishment!
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6. Share At Risk Calculation
• Per capita kilo calories
• Minimum kilo calories required
• Relative kilo calories
• Calculation following Günther Fischer, Mahendra Shah,
Francesco N. Tubiello and Harrij van Velhuizen (2005)
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7. Towards MDGs
• Goal 1: Eradication extreme poverty and hunger
– Target 1C – Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people
who suffer from hunger
• IMPACT Proxies
– Malnourished children
– Share at risk of hunger
• IMPACT reports
– MDG check – year in which each goal is reached
– MDG progress – tracks the progress of countries towards each goal
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