World Food Programme (WFP)
Regional Bureau for Asia,
Michael Sheinkman
Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping
(VAM)
Monitoring and Mapping
of
Food Insecurity and
Vulnerability

Food Security Atlas - Indonesia

Production to Consumption Ratio

Population below Poverty Line

Underweight (weight / age) Children < 5 yrs

Population without access to Clean Water

Food Security Atlas – Nepal and Pakistan

IFPRI Hunger Index. Sub-regional

Food Security Atlas - India

Food Security Atlases – State level

Food Security Atlas - Bangladesh

Underweight vs Under-Nourished (<MDER)

Nepal - Small Area Estimation

Indonesia - Small Area Estimation

Assessments / Analysis
 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA)
- Joint with national statistics organization, serves as baseline
 Emergency Food Security Assessment (EFSA)
- Joint with government partners and/or NGOs, research institutes
 Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM)
- Joint with FAO
 Food Security and Nutrition Assessment (FSNA)
- Joint with UNICEF
 Joint Assessment Mission (JAM)
- Joint with UNHCR

Food Security Indicators
 Food Consumption Score / measure of dietary diversity
 Coping Strategies
 Household expenditure on food as percentage of the total
 Household Asset Score / Community Asset Score

Food grain markets and commodity flows

Market integration: Nepal and India

Market Integration - wheat in Pakistan
Disintegrated
Markets

Food for Education: School Feeding
 School meals
- Assisting 20 million schoolchildren.
 Take-Home Rations
- encourage children to attend school. e.g girls in Pakistan

Education about Assisted

Food for Assets / Cash for Assets

Supplementary Nutritional Feeding

Food Technology
 Food Fortification
 Ready To Eat Food (RTUF)

Procurement and Logistics

Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM)
• Baseline data
•Food Security Atlas
•Small Area Estimation
•Market Analysis
•CFSVA
•Emergency Assessments
•EFSA, CFSAM, JAM, FSNA
•Programme Interventions
•School Feeding / Food for Education. (Education Atlas)
•Food for Assets / Cash for Asset
• Supplementary Feeding
•Food Technology - Fortification. Ready to Use Food
•Procurement - Global, Regional, Local (Purchase for Progress)
•Logistics - Storage and Transport
•(Airplanes/helicopters, ships/small boats, trucks, donkeys, goats….)