Kathmandu
Nepal

Addressing household food security in the context of changing climate and environment

Organizer(s) International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Venue
Kathmandu
Date
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The course is designed to provide a general understanding on emerging issues, challenges and opportunities with regards to global, regional, national, community and household food security issues and impacts. The course focuses on the four dimensions of food security namely: availability, access, utilization and stability. Participants are to critically analyze the challenges of climate change on
food security including the identification of adaptation and mitigation measures to address this. They also learn how to strengthen and sustain food security projects to ensure that efforts to improve access, availability, utilization and stability of food are adapted and continued by farmer households and the community.

Course objectives

By the end of the course, the participants shall have:

  1. Articulated the working concepts, principles, tools and interventions on food security;
  2. Increased awareness on global, national and local food issues affecting forest dwellers, smallholder farmers and fisherfolks;
  3. Described strategies for the active mobilization of food security stakeholders;
  4. Identified best practices to strengthen and sustain food security projects; and
  5. Developed an action plan to improve current food security efforts or introduce new initiatives on food security.


Methodologies

The roving workshop exposes participants to approaches in a range of ecosystems: rain fed/irrigated rice based systems, community forestry, and freshwater systems.

At each location, participants will do community level assessments, study how local communities and local organizations respond to local needs and eventually synthesize their experiences. IIRR facilitators provide critical technical inputs of food, nutrition and climate change dimension at each specific ecosystem. A participatory training approach is used where both facilitators and participants share their knowledge and experiences in the field.

Course content

Module 1. Understanding the concept of food security and climate change

This module provides an overall understanding of global issues and its interconnections with food security, climate change and disaster risk. It defines food security concepts and explores the effects of food insecurity on a country’s poverty level and nutritional status. Participants are introduced to the concept of ecosystem resiliency and agro-ecosystem analysis as a useful tool for planning and
implementing food security projects. An in-depth discussion on social & institutional issues will highlight the important role that institutions play in food security including the importance of collective action and property rights in addressing issues of food insecurity

Module 2: Managing challenges in food security

This module is a two-part activity. The first part discusses the conceptual frameworks for understanding the interplay of local environment and food security considerations such as local socio- cultural, gender and institutional contexts in human nutrition and overall development. An overview of ecosystems and landscape based approaches to food security and livelihood is also
provided. The second part is characterized by field visits to key ecosystems and communities to observe and analyze various food security considerations using participatory approaches. Guided discussions are conducted after every visit for the purpose of surfacing learnings and observations.

Module 3: Strengthening and sustaining food security projects

This module provides participants an overview of participatory approaches that are useful in enhancing and up scaling food security and nutrition projects in consideration of climate change challenges. Participants sharing of experiences in specific participatory tools is encouraged.

Module 4. Action planning

Participants are to prepare an action plan identifying food security programs/activities taking into account their national or community’s food security context to strengthen people’s resilience in coping with threats to food security. Climate change adaptation and mitigation measures are to be integrated in the action plan.

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