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> See Country Briefs New! Country Briefs These Country Briefs monitor cereal and livestock prices; and analyze factors affecting the current food security situation.

> Practical Guide: Basic Concepts of Food Security (pdf)

Policy Brief: Food Security in Protracted Crises: What can be done? This policy brief aims at sharing insights, based on evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and the Sudan, on what might be done to improve food security in protracted crises. > More Information > Download Policy Brief (pdf)

Beyond Relief: Food Security in Protracted Crisis by Luca Alinovi, Günter Hemrich, and Luca Russo > More Information > Press Release (AlertNet, September 2008) > Related Seminar (ODI, September 2008)

Synthesis report: Planning for the future - an assessment of food security early warning systems in sub-Saharan Africa (2 Mb, pdf) > text only version (650 kb, pdf)

Deriving Food Security Information from National Household Budget Surveys edited by Ricardo Sibrian The book includes papers from eleven countries which examine methodological issues related to estimating food deprivation. It aims at giving readers a better understanding of food security indicators and their use in food policy analysis. Related Article: > A Treasure Trove of Information for Understanding Hidden Hunger

Guidelines for Estimating the Month and Year of Birth of Young Children The guidelines show how to develop a detailed calendar of events to determine the month and year of birth of young children and how to train field workers in using the calendar.

"Achieving Food and Nutrition Security" The training manual originally published by InWent has now been translated, with EC-FAO programme support, into Russian (August 2008) > More Information > Download manual in Russian (3.7 Mb)