Food Security Information for Action http://www.foodsec.org This site's overall purpose is to enhance national capacity to use food security information from different sectors for more effective anti-hunger policies and programmes. en-us New E-learning Course: Markets Assessment and Analysis http://www.foodsec.org/dl The course illustrates how markets operate and how they relate to, and affect, food security and vulnerable households. It describes market components and how they function, and introduces some of the methods and indicators used to assess markets for improving food security analysis. New Publication: Deriving Food Security Information from National Household Budget Surveys http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0430e/i0430e00.htm The book includes papers from eleven countries which examine methodological issues related to estimating food deprivation. It aims at giving readers a better understanding of food security indicators and their use in food policy analysis. New E-learning Course: Targeting http://www.foodsec.org/dl The course illustrates the basic principles related to the design, evaluation and monitoring of targeting systems. It provides examples of how targeting principles can be applied both in emergency and long term food security contexts. New E-learning Course: Food Security Policies - Formulation and Implementation http://www.foodsec.org/news_08_07.htm This course describes Food Security Policies and explains when and why they are required. The course also describes the process of Food Security Policy formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. New E-learning Course: Food Security Policies - Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis http://www.foodsec.org/news_08_08.htm This course provides a definition of vulnerability and illustrates the three critical dimensions used to define it. It also presents the most commonly used methods to assess vulnerability, and provides examples and criteria for selecting appropriate vulnerability indicators.