Resources for Trainers

Markets Assessment and Analysis (3 Lessons)

The course illustrates how markets operate and how they relate to, and affect, food security and vulnerable households. It describes market components and how they function, and introduces some of the methods and indicators used to assess markets for improving food security analysis.

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Lesson 1: Markets and Food Security

This lesson provides a definition of markets and how they relate to food security. It illustrates the interactions between supply and demand, and introduces the concepts of price, market system and market network.

> Slide Presentation (powerpoint, 858 kb)
> Learner Notes (word, 545 kb)

Lesson 2: Assessing Markets

This lesson introduces some methods used to assess markets for improving food security analysis. It illustrates the components of a good market assessment and describes different types of assessments in different food security contexts.

> Slide Presentation (powerpoint, 1.3 Mb)
> Learner Notes (word, 1 Mb)

Lesson 3: Market Indicators

This lesson introduces the indicators which can be used to create a market profile or baseline. It describes how to analyse prices, and which sets of indicators are normally used to assess markets in different food security contexts.

> Slide Presentation (powerpoint, 1 Mb)
> Learner Notes (word, 1 Mb)