Chapter 5


Chapter 5:
Domestic Policy Intervention to Improve Food Security


OBJECTIVES.

By the end of this module, participants will:

1. be aware of the need for embodying a food security dimension into macro-economic and
 structural adjustment programmes and the various options for achieving this;

2. have been introduced to appropriate and feasible policy measures to increase and stabilize
 food production and supplies;

3. have been introduced to appropriate and feasible policy measures to improve access to
 food;

4. understand suitable policy approaches to improve the state of food security of specific
 vulnerable groups.

 TOPICS ACTIVITIES

 1. Introduction 1. Outline of a food security strategy for a
 country

2. Production and supply based approaches 2. Appraisal of the need for a food
 security/food buffer stock
 3. Improving access to food targeted 3. Design of policy measures aimed at
 interventions improving the household food security
 of selected vulnerable groups
 4. The impact paths of policies to improve
 food security a concise view


 REFERENCES

 FAO, World Food Summit papers on relevant issues (please see References)
 FAO, Committee on World Food Security, 1988, Measures to Improve Access to Food by the
 Poor, CFS 88/4..
 IFPRI 1992, Improving Food Security of the Poor: Concept, Policy, and Programs,
 Washington D.C.
 World Bank, 1990, How Adjustment Programs Can Help the Poor The World Bank's
 Experience, Washington D.C
 World Bank, 1986, Poverty and Hunger, Issues and Options for Food Security in Developing
 countries, Washington D.C.