Activities Chapter 5


 Template 5A: Determining Factors of the Requirements of a Food Buffer
 Stock and/or a Food Security Reserve



Country:
 Determining Factors Factor score *) Group Score *)
 1. Agricultural production situation
 1.1 Vulnerability to drought, floods, etc.
 1.2 Multiple cropping
 1.3 Multiple seasons
 1.4 Food Security crops
 2. Non-governmental storage
 2.1 Intra-annual on-farm storage
 2.2 Inter-annual on-farm storage
 2.3 Intra-annual commercial storage
 2.4 Inter-annual commercial storage
 2.5 Intra-annual storage by households
 2.6 Inter-annual storage by households
 3. Restriction to trade
 3.1 Licensing of food imports
 3.2 Tax on local trade
 3.3 Tax on international trade
 3.4 Restrictions on domestic movements
 4. External supply routes
 4.1 Access to port facilities
 4.2 Capacity and quality of port facilities
 4.3 Sea blockade risk
 4.4 Land blockade risk
 5. Internal transport
 5.1 Functioning railway_
 5.2 Road infrastructure quantity/
 5.3 Road infrastructure quality/maintenance
 5.4 Truck availability
 5.5 Fuel availability-
 5.6 Spare-part availability
 6. Political/security
 6.1 Civil conflict
 6.2 External/regional/international conflict
 7. Public system
 7.1 Early warning system
 7.2 Public price support
 7.3 Import decision lag
 7.4 Foreign exchange availability
 7.5 Standby donor commitments
 8. Other factors
 8.1 NGO stocks/activities
 8.2 Local/community support system
 8.3 Private support system
 8.4 others, specify:
 Aggregate weighed average

 Template adapted from: A. Santorum and J. Gray (1992)


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