Adoption du programme de travail du Cabinet ProSE dans le projet ECOAGRIS: avenant au contrat de développement des modules thématiques

Cet atelier tenu le 12 Octobre 2017 a fait suite aux recommandations issues de la réunion technique du mois d’Avril 2017. Il avait pour objectif global d’évaluer l’état d’avancement des travaux du Cabinet ProSE SARL recruté par e projet ECOAGRIS pour conduire la mission de développement des modules additionnels et déployer le système dans dix-sept (17) pays. Ce cabinet a été recruté pour développer des modules thématiques en vue d’opérationnaliser la plateforme de la composante ECOAGRIS qui va faciliter la mise en place d’un système de mutualisation des données pour leur stockage et leur partage en ligne. Etant donne le travail accompli par le Cabinet ProSE, un avenant au contrat a été signe entre le projet ECOAGRIS et la Délégation de l’Union Européenne pour achever l’implémentation de la plateforme. De façon spécifique, cet atelier technique entre le Bailleur/ Délégation de l’Union Européenne de Niamey/Niger, la Coordination du projet ECOAGRIS et le Centre Commun de Recherche/CCR de la Commission Européenne avait pour objectif d’évaluer le contenu de la feuille de route du Cabinet ProSE. En terme de méthodologie, les experts du Projet ECOAGRIS ont présenté d’abord l’état d’avancement de la prise en compte des amendements formules lors des différentes rencontres avec les développeurs du Cabinet ProSE. Ensuite, le Cabinet a présenté sa feuille de route dans le cadre de ce nouvel avenant au contrat. Avec la facilitation/modération du CCR-EC, des discussions d’amendement ont été menées en plénière en tenant compte à la fois de ce qui reste à faire pour rendre opérationnelle la plateforme ECOAGRIS et des contraintes du Cabinet. Une feuille de route consensuelle a été adoptée à la fin de cet atelier avec un calendrier bien précis.JRC.D.5-Food Securit

Recovering from conflict: an analysis of food production in Burundi

This paper deals with the devastating food insecurity in two densely populated provinces in the north of Burundi as a result of overpopulation and low production capacity in the aftermath of conflict. We compare data that was collected in the Ngozi and Muyinga Province in 2007 with data of households interviewed on the same hills in 1996. Households live from subsistence farming, erratic surplus sales, sales of coffee and banana and occasional off- and non-farm work. We find that not only did production levels decrease but also total factor productivity (Malmquist indices calculated with DEA approach) dropped in 83% of the hills between 1996 and 2007.food security, post-conflict, Central Africa, Burundi, subsistence farming, poverty trap, International Development,

Children's dietary diversity and related factors in Rwanda and Burundi: A multilevel analysis using 2010 Demographic and Health Surveys

BACKGROUND: One of the reported causes of high malnutrition rates in Burundi and Rwanda is children's inadequate dietary habits. The diet of children may be affected by individual characteristics and by the characteristics of the households and the communities in which they live. We used the minimum dietary diversity of children (MDD-C) indicator as a proxy of diet quality aiming at: 1) assess how much of the observed variation in MDD-C was attributed to community clustering, and 2) to identify the MDD-C associated factors. METHODS: Data was obtained from the 2010 Demographic and Health Surveys of Burundi and Rwanda, from which only children 6 to 23 months from rural areas were analysed. The MDD-C was calculated according to the 2007 WHO/UNICEF guidelines. We computed the intra-class coefficient to assess the percentage of variation attributed to the clustering effect of living in the same community. And then we applied two-level logit regressions to investigate the association between MDD-C and potential risk factors following the hierarchical survey structure of DHS. RESULTS: The MDD-C was 23% in rural Rwanda and 16% in rural Burundi, and a 29% of its variation in Rwanda and 17% in Burundi was attributable to community clustering. Increasing age and living standards were associated with higher MDD-C in both countries, and only in Burundi also increasing level of education of the mother's partner. In Rwanda alone, the increasing ages of the head of the household and of the mother at first birth were also positively associated with it. Despite the identification of an important proportion of the MDD-C variation due to clustering, we couldn't identify any community variable significantly associated with it. CONCLUSIONS: We recommend further research using hierarchical models, and to integrate dietary diversity in holistic interventions which take into account both the household's and the community's characteristics the children live in.The authors received no specific funding for this work.S

Global analysis of food and nutrition security situation in food crisis hotspots

This report provides a global overview of food insecurity due to different crises and natural disasters to support programming of the Pro-resilience Actions (PRO-ACT) funding mechanism, a component of the Global Public Goods and Challenges (GPGC) thematic programme of the European Union. The analysis covers the period January 2015-January 2016 that has been marked by food crises in several countries because of extreme weather events due the El Niño phenomenon but also because of conflicts and political crises. In a number of countries, in particular in West Africa, food insecurity remains a major concern because of chronic vulnerability despite good crop production in 2015.JRC.H.4-Monitoring Agricultural Resource

Visite technique des experts du Centre Regional Aghrymet/Projet ECOAGRIS au Centre Commun de Recherche de la Commission Europeenne a Ispra/Italie

D’une part, cette visite technique s’inscrit dans le cadre de la collaboration entre le Centre AGRHYMET et le Centre Commun de Recherche (CCR) de la Commission Européenne. D’autre part, cette visite permet aux chercheurs du JRC-D5 engagés dans le suivi-technique et scientifique du projet ECOAGRIS de faire le suivi. En effet, les experts du CCR/Ispra appuient les activités du Centre AGHRYMET et spécialement le développement de l’outil Cadre Harmonisé (CH) et l’analyse régionale de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle en Afrique de l’Ouest et au Sahel. En outre, le CCR a signé avec la DG DEVCO un Arrangement Administratif (AA) dans le cadre du projet « Technical and scientific Support to agriculture and Food and Nutrition Security (TS4FNS »). Dans le cadre de cet instrument, le CCR est un partenaire technique dans l’implémentation du projet ECOAGRIS. C’est dans le but de faire le suivi technique et scientifique du projet ECOAGRIS et d’assurer une formation aux outils développés par le CCR que cette formation a été organisée. Une revue de l’état d’avancement du projet a été présentée. Des outils varies développés par le CCR-D5 et D6 ont été partages avec les experts du projet ECOAGRIS. Plus spécifiquement, des modules sur le produit ASAP, CST, e-Station et l’analyse des séries chronologiques ont été présentés. En plus d’une formation théorique sur l’analyse des séries chronologiques, une formation pratique sur l’analyse économétrique des séries chronologiques/time series a été organisée avec le logiciel STATA. Cette formation a été couronnée de succès étant donne que la région de l’Afrique de l’Ouest possède des données sous forme de séries chronologiques (prix, données climatologiques, nutrition, production, etc.…). Cette formation a une plus-value pour des modèles de prévision.JRC.D.5-Food Securit

Quantitative methods for integrated food and nutrition security measurements. Lessons to be learned!

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) jointly organized an International Conference on Quantitative Methods for Integrated Food and Nutrition Security Measurements. The conference provided a platform for researchers, academics, professionals and decision-makers to define the state of the art for quantitative measurement of food and nutrition security (F&NS) by identifying the main practical challenges, sharing innovative methods and modelling techniques, and exploring best practices to scale up multi- and cross-sectoral F&NS collaboration and coordination at country, regional and global level. Moreover, in hosting an interdisciplinary forum, the conference offered the opportunity for participants to forge innovative partnerships for the development and promotion of improved methodologies to support evidence-based F&NS policies and decision-makers.JRC.D.5-Food Securit

Quantitative Methods for Integrated Food and Nutrition Security Measurement

Despite the importance of Food and Nutrition Security, great challenges remain to be addressed worldwide to reduce and eradicate hunger and malnutrition. The most recent report on the State of Food Insecurity in the World (2018) stated that, for developing regions taken as a whole, the share of undernourished people in the total population has recently increased in the period 2015-17 to 10.9% compared to its lowest (10.6%) in 2015. Although there has been substantial progress in the last decade, almost 821 million people are still undernourished globally. In part, the inability to tackle the problems relates to the lack of timely and more spatially explicit information to inform decision-making, humanitarian and development initiatives. On the other hand, monitoring progress of policies and actions to combat hunger and malnutrition requires innovative and practical measurements that take into account food and nutrition security (FNS) updated information. The availability of joint measurements for FNS is still low for the great demand of information in this subject. Nonetheless, some efforts have initiated in recent years by researchers and practitioners. Thus, in 2017 the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) jointly organizing an International Conference on Quantitative Methods for Integrated Food and Nutrition Security Measurements. The conference provided a platform for researchers, academics, professionals and decision makers to define the state of the art for quantitative measurement of food and nutrition security (F&NS). The research work and keynotes presented helped identifying the main practical challenges, innovative methods or modeling techniques, and exploring best practices to scale up multi and cross-sectoral F&NS collaboration and coordination at country, regional and global level. Moreover, in hosting an interdisciplinary forum, the conference offered the opportunity for participants to forge innovative partnerships for the development and promotion of improved methodologies to support evidence-based F&NS policies and decision-making. The conference gathered research work mainly from Africa but also from Asia and included 80 participants from Africa, Asia and Europe. This document summarize the presentations, which included keynotes and research projects, included here according to their order in the program of the conference. Research projects presentations are summarized presenting when possible, their main motivation, methods and results, or else their title and authors for those under publication in scientific journals.JRC.D.5-Food Securit

Une filière agro-industrielle en mutation : cas de la filière théicole au Burundi

Doctorat en sciences agronomiques et ingénierie biologique (AGRO 3)--UCL, 200

Policy Reforms and Rural Livelihoods Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities - Empirical Evidence from the Adoption of Land Use Consolidation (LUC) Policy in Rwanda.

In this study, descriptive statistics are used to find-out where households that have already adopted Land Use Consolidation (LUC) more rely for food acquisition. Pooled OLS is mobilized to identify the level of magnitude LUC's outcomes affect food security at household level. Lorenz curve and Gini Index are used to find out how household’s income is distributed among households in LUC. Finally, Probit regression model is applied to identify and understand factors that determine a household's level of satisfaction when in LUC. First, the results of this study suggest that the majority of households (about 84%) in LUC have acceptable food consumption score. Second, it shows that households in LUC are more reliant to market for food acquisition and about 72% of food is acquired from the market. Third, it estimates elasticity of crop yield, extension services and expenditure on food items on household's food consumption score to be about 46%, 26% and 13% respectively. Fourth, it demonstrates that income from agricultural production is more inequitably distributed among those households and estimates a Gini Index of 0.69 and 0.52 for the distribution of income from agricultural and household's total income respectively. Finally, it shows that the majority of households (about 62%) in LUC are highly satisfied with the adoption of LUC with a probability of satisfaction higher than 0.7. Moreover, it shows that households headed by females are more satisfied with LUC adoption than those headed by males. In addition, the satisfaction variability is more predictable in households headed by males.JRC.D.5-Food Securit

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Technical Manual Version 2.0

The purpose of this Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Technical Manual Version 2.0 is to provide food security analysts with technical standards and guidelines for conducting IPC analysis. Version 2.0 introduces revised standards based on field application and expert consultation over the past several years. The manual is targeted to technicians/practitioners. The manual is not an overview of the broader fields of food security, nutrition and livelihoods analysis. It is a prerequisite that IPC practitioners have expertise in these and related fields.JRC.H.4-Monitoring Agricultural Resource