Social Protection Options for Strengthening Food Security:The Example of the Targeted Food Security

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Social Protection Options for Strengthening Food
SecurityThe Example of the Targeted Food
Security Pack
Prepared by PAM

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DEFINITION OF FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

• National Food and Nutrition Security
• availability of adequate quantities of
  diversified food stuffs to meet the food and
  nutritional needs of all the Citizens of a
  country.
• Household Food and Nutrition Security.
• Access to adequate and nutritious
• food for healthy and productive life
• of household members

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• Individual Food and Nutrition
• Security.
• Access to adequate and nutritious food to meet
  the personal physiological needs of an
  individual.

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Programme Against Malnutrition (PAM)

• Local, indigenous NGO that is Non-profit making,
  non-partisan and autonomous
• Founded in 1992 to coordinate National response
  to the 1991/92 drought
• Has Links and partners with more than 100 other
  rural based NGOs
• Has shifted focus from disaster mitigation or
  relief provision to recovery and developmental
  programmes

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Target

• Structure of Rural Community
• Commercial farmers (gt5ha)
• Emergent Farmers (1- 5ha)
• Subsistence farmers ()
• Vulnerable but viable
• Vulnerable and not viable

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Targeted Food Security Pack

• Social safety net programme targeting vulnerable
  but viable small scale farming households
• Affected socio groups
• Female headed households
• Child headed households
• Unemployed youth
• Disabled
• Households headed by terminally ill persons
• Households or institutions looking after orphans

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Components of the Programme

• Crop diversification and Conservation Farming
• Market Entrepreneurship and Seed/Grain Bank
  Development
• Alternative Livelihood

• Sustainbility
• Surplus, increased seed availibility
• Areas of low crop production comparative
  advantage

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The Pack as a case study (5Yr Project)
FSP
Crop Diversification Cereals Legumes Root/Tuber
Alternative Livelihoods Livestock/Fishing Forestry
Products Arts/Crafts
Cereals/Seed Bank
Marketing
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Pack composition

• Cereal
• Maize, Sorghum,Millet or Rice
• Legume
• Beans, Groundnuts, Soya beans or Cowpeas
• Root/tuber
• Cassava or Sweet Potato
• Fertiliser for recipients of Maize seed
  Agricultural lime for recepients in areas
  affected by soil acidity

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Positive Impact

• Attainment of household food security (two
  three square meals a day)
• Increased availability of seed for improved crop
  varieties
• Asset accumulation at household and community
  level (graduation)
• Community mobilization and organization

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Challenges or emerging issues

• Inadequate and/or untimely funding
• partial implementation, stretching and splinting
  of pack
• Reduced impact
• Marketing critical for mopping up surplus and as
  an incentive for increased production (all
  inclusive)

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Challenges or emerging issues cont

• Environmental Conservation and Sustainability
• Conservation Farming
• Substitution of inorganic fertilizers by organic
  fertilizers
• Crop rotation
• Poor rural infrastructure
• Transport
• Storage
• Banking facilities

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Challenges or emerging issues cont.

• Community Participation
• Education
• Political Will
• Conducive Food Security Policies
• National food balance (all inclusive)
• Strategic reserve
• Use of food aid

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Food Security Options
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• WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE
• Food and Nutrition Security
• Policy that embraces critical
• variables of
• Financial access
• Infrastructure marketing
• Institutional arrangement
• (Private, public, NGO, etc.)
• Scientific Research and
• development technology for
• sustainable environment.

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Field Pictures
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Field Pictures Cont.
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• Beans and Maize for Widow and aged beneficiary in
  Mwinilunga

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• Productive cow peas on the Copper Belt

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• Ensured food security with Chingomvwa and Maize