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WORKSHOP AGENDA
A SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGE: FOOD SECURITY FOR ALL
Workshop 1:
Measuring Food Insecurity and Assessing the Sustainability of Global Food Systems
Date: February 16-17, 2011
Location: Keck Center of the National Academies
500 Fifth Street NW, Room 201, Washington, DC
OBJECTIVES:
The overarching objective of the workshop is to contribute to the global effort towards sustainable food
security through the improvement of indicators used to assess and monitor progress. More specific
objectives are:
• To help establish the dimensions of the sustainable food security challenge
• To review commonly used indicators from the point of view of: the data used (quality, frequency,
consistency), construction of the metric/indicator and analyze methodological strengths and
weaknesses
• To examine current uses and misuses of the indicators
• To identify priorities for improving existing processes and developing better data and indicators
to meet the needs of users.
• To explore possible peer review mechanisms for monitoring and suggesting improvements to the
metrics/indicators and promote their proper use for policies and programs.
NOTES:
The workshop will bring together a small group of experts including those responsible for key indicators
of food security, key critics of those metrics, a number users and members of the Academies’ committee.
Participants are expected to review existing metrics, analyze plans for revision, propose directions for
revision, and to consider whether or not a peer review mechanism might be useful. Background papers,
briefing notes, and presentations will review and synthesize the key data and estimation problems in
assessing food security and malnutrition, poverty and environmental sustainability. Members of the
planning committee will prepare a workshop report.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
8:00 AM Breakfast available
8:30 AM Welcome and Introduction
Per Pinstrup Andersen, Cornell University, Committee Chair
8:45 AM Workshop Overview
Kostas Stamoulis
MAJOR DIMENSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURITY
9:00 AM What Do We Really Know?—Metrics for Food Insecurity and Malnutrition
Hartwig de Haen, Former FAO Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social
Development and Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen
Numerous statistics are published reporting on world hunger and malnutrition
conditions. Do we really know how many hungry people are in the world and in each
country? Do we know how many under and over nourished children and adults exist
worldwide and in each country? How good have the data been projecting future
changes?
9:45 AM Questions for Clarification
10:00 AM BREAK
10:15 AM Hunger and Malnutrition (Panel Discussion)
Moderator: Marie Ruel, International Food Policy Research Institute
In this session, those knowledgeable about the construction of food consumption indices
and outcome measures will present what they perceive to be their major strengths and
weaknesses (including data used), plans for revision, and uses and misuses.
A. Food Consumption Indicators
o Pietro Gennari, FAO (FAO Undernourishment Indicator)
o Benjamin Senauer, University of Minnesota (FAO Undernourishment Indicator)
B. Outcome Indicators
o Lynnette Neufeld, Micronutrient Initiative (Measures of Malnutrition)
o Ricardo Uauy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Measures of
Overnutrition / Obesity)
11:30 AM General Discussion: How Indicators are Used and Needs of National Decision-
Makers
Moderator: Marie Ruel, International Food Policy Research Institute
o Shahla Shapouri, U.S. Department of Agriculture
o Adelheid Onyango, World Health Organization
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12:15 PM LUNCH
POVERTY
1:15 PM Measures of National and Global Poverty and Their Use in Policy Making
Martin Ravallion, The World Bank
Presentation on measures of global poverty and food access: Advantages, shortcomings,
and what should they be used for.
1:45 PM Questions for Clarification
2:00 PM An Alternative Poverty Indicator
James Foster, The George Washington University (Oxford Poverty and Human
Development Initiative)
2:15 PM Panel Discussion (Martin Ravallion, James Foster and Stephan Klasen)
Moderator: Marco Ferroni, The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
Panel will focus on the way forward for the measurement of poverty and inequality and
how to assure that measures are useful for policy makers.
2:30 PM General Discussion on Indicators for Hunger, Malnutrition, and Poverty
Moderator: Marco Ferroni, The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
How important are global numbers for hunger, malnutrion and poverty? For
whom?
Do measures of poverty, food security, and malnutrition move in the same
direction? If not why not? Is this a problem with the measures or does it
highlight more complex issues?
Are numbers comparable between countries and overtime?
What information do decision-makers really need and for what?
3:15 PM BREAK
NATURAL RESOURCES AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
3:30 PM Introductory Comments: Natural Resources and Agricultural Productivity
Emmy Simmons, U.S. Agency for International Development (ret.)
3:45 PM A. Measuring Productivity and Natural Assets (Panel Discussion 1)
Moderator: Philip Pardey, University of Minnesota
Panel will examines measures of agricultural productivity and natural resource use with
regard to sustainable food security.
o Richard Perrin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Measures and Meaning of
Agricultural Productivity)
o Stanley Wood, IFPRI (Expanding Agricultural Productivity Measures and
Linking to Eco-System Services--A Spatially Explicit Approach)
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Steve Polasky, University of Minnesota (Measuring and Valuing Natural Assets)
o
Peter McCornick, Duke University (Water, Agricultural Productivity and
o
Environmental/Health Services)
4:45 PM General Discussion on Measuring Productivity and Natural Assets
Moderator: Philip Pardey, University of Minnesota
5:00 PM ADJOURN
6:00 PM Working Dinner for Steering Committee and Invited Guests
Brief Remarks: Emmy Simmons, U.S. Agency for International Development (ret.)
Acadiana Restaurant Lake Room, 901 New York Avenue NW Washington, DC
Thursday, February 17, 2011
8:00 AM Breakfast available
8:30 AM Review of Day One and Welcome to Day Two
Per Pinstrup Andersen, Cornell University, Committee Chair
8:45 AM B. Composite Indicators for Sustainable Production (Panel Discussion 2)
Moderator: Jennifer Shaw, Syngenta
Panel will look at composite indicators for sustainable production and natural resource
use and how they can be used practically to promote sustainable practices and inform
consumers and policy maker.
o Greg Thoma, University of Arkansas – The Sustainability Consortium work
(Overview of Metrics and Indicators, Different Approaches, Strengths and
Weaknesses)
o Jennifer Shaw, Syngenta (Industry Perspective on Use of Metrics)
o Dirk Voeste, BASF (Experience on Gathering Meaningful Data for Life Cycle
Analyses)
9:45 AM BREAK
10:00 AM C. Food Security and the Environment (Panel Discussion 3)
Moderator: Jason Clay, The World Wildlife Fund,
“Feeding 9 Billion and Maintaining the Planet”
Panel will discuss plausible trajectories for sustainably increasing food supplies and
identify data that are available and needed to understand possibilities and trade-offs.
o Jon Foley, University of Minnesota (Food Security and Land Cropping Potential)
o Paul Vlek, University of Bonn (Contribution of Agriculture to Climate Change
and Potential for Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change) (videoconference)
o Jude Capper, Washington State University (Animal Protein Production Impacts
and Trends) (teleconference)
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11:00 AM General Discussion on Indicators for Natural Resources and Agricultural
Productivity
Moderator: Jason Clay, The World Wildlife Fund
11:30 AM LUNCH
THE WAY FORWARD
12:30 PM A Proposal
Prabhu Pingali, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (videoconference)
12:45 PM Breakout Discussions: The Way Forward
Group 1: Hunger and Malnutrition, Poverty (Kostas Stamoulis, Keck 201)
Group 2: Natural Resources and Agricultural Productivity (Phil Pardey, Keck 207)
Each breakout group of participants will be asked to answer the set of questions based on
their expertise and information presented during the workshop’s earlier sessions.
Additional questions specific to the topic may be added later.
Meeting the challenge—providing the right data and information and the right
institutional and organizational system.
How can existing and new data collection efforts be developed to efficiently
provide needed information?
What additional research is needed to inform processes and to develop more
appropriate indicators?
What institutional arrangements are needed?
1:30 PM Feedback from Breakout Groups
Per Pinstrup Andersen, Cornell University, Committee Chair
2:00 PM General Discussion – Key Recommendations
Per Pinstrup Andersen, Cornell University, Committee Chair
2:45 PM Wrap Up and Summary
Per Pinstrup Andersen, Cornell University, Committee Chair
3:00 PM ADJOURN for Public Session
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