The Food Security Portal is a clearinghouse that provides data, tools, and a policy network for food security. It contains over 169,000 data points from over 50 sources on topics like agricultural production, food prices, hunger, and nutrition. The portal houses tools like an early warning system for excessive food price variability and a media analysis system. It also enables simulation of the welfare and poverty impacts of food price changes in different countries. The portal aims to strengthen capacity and increase the use of its tools through policy dialogues and networking to influence food security policies.

1. Food Security Portal: a clearinghouse of
data, tools, and a policy network for
Food security
Maximo Torero
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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A dedicated
place to find Food security
data and
tools?

6. Policy
Network
Policy
Dialogues

8. 169,862
Total visitsTotal visits

9. AMIS:
FSP:

11. Data

12. * Data sources

13. Agricultural Land (% of total area)
Agriculture Value Added
Calorie Supply Per Capita, Crops Equivalent
Calorie Supply per Capita, Livestock Equivalent
Children Undernourished (%)
Commodities Futures Data
Countries
CPI
External Debt (% of GNI)
Foreign Direct Investment (Current $US) )
GDP (current $US ) S)
Global Hunger Index x
Global Inflation Dataset t
GNI per Capita (current $US)
Maize Exports
Maize Imports
Maize Prices
Maize Production
National Poverty Rates (%)
Population
Population Density
Price
Population Undernourished (%)
Receipts of Food Aid (cereals)
Regions
Rice Exports
Rice Imports
Rice Prices
Rice Production
Soybean Exports
Soybean Imports
Soybean Production
Under 5 Mortality Rate (per 1,000)
Unemployment
Weekly Commodities Prices
Wheat Exports
Wheat Imports
Wheat Prices
Wheat Production
World Commodity Prices
World Maize Price
World Oil Price
World Rice Price
World Soybean Price
World Wheat

14. Tools

15. Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/policy‐analysis‐tools/excessive‐food‐price‐variability‐early‐warning‐system

16. http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/hard‐wheat‐price‐volatility‐alert‐mechanism

17. http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/commodities

18. Food Security Media Analysis (FOMA) System
This tool uses sophisticated linguistic and semantic object network‐mapping algorithms
to analyze the relationships between key terms found in media articles that influence
commodity price volatility.
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/policy‐analysis‐tools/food‐security‐media‐analysis‐foma

19. Food Security Media Analysis (FOMA) System
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/policy‐analysis‐tools/food‐security‐media‐analysis‐foma

20. Welfare impact of changing food prices: online simulator

21. 1. Single household
simulations
2. Country level
simulations
Descriptive
statistics
Food consumption
patterns
Welfare impact
Poverty impact
Country
representative
household surveys
What is the
welfare
impact of
changing
food prices?
Define
Food
price
changes
User‐defined
parameters
Welfare impact of changing food prices: online simulator
(developer testing site)

22. User defined‐parameters

23. • Option to simulate
consumption and production
elasticities
•This captures substitutions
effects
Simulation
results

24. 1. Single household
simulations
2. Country level
simulations
Descriptive
statistics
Food consumption
patterns
Welfare impact
Poverty impact
Country
representative
household surveys
What is the
welfare
impact of
changing
food prices?
Define
Food
price
changes
User‐defined
parameters
Current programming development stage: Guatemala
Initial set of countries for which data is available:
•Latin America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Ecuador, Peru
•Africa: Kenya, Ghana
•Asia: Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam
Additional datasets can enter the system over time

28. Welfare Impact of Changing Food Prices: Online Simulator

29. Policy dialogues & Network
ways to create policy influence

31. Commodity price volatility in Central America
Cross Country Learning, Priority‐setting and Policy Influence
Evidence
based
Research
Food
Security
Portal:
Price
volatility
tool
Staple
Commodi
ty price
data
Central
America
Network
News
covering
Central
America
Sectoral
Policy
Dialogues
For
Price
Volatility
International Public Goods
Strengthened Capacity and Increased Use of FSP Tools

32. Conclusion

33. Food Security Challenges
Open data Open tools
Policy
network
Policy
dialogues
Food
Security
Policy Influence

34. Next Steps

35. •FSP for Sub‐Saharan
Africa – EC support
•FSP for India – SDC
Support
•FSP for Central America
– USAID support