Vulnerability to hunger: Improving food crisis responses in Fragile states

The paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms could be improved to help decision makers better address the underlying causes of vulnerability and hunger. In particular the paper looks at the implications raised by the absence of system-wide frameworks to compare the severity of different crises. Of particular interest is the case study information presented, based on the early application of a food classification system named the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The paper examines emerging lessons from this common classification framework, covering institutional adaptation, technical approaches and questions on data and analysis.

 C. Andrews, M. Flores, WIDER - April 2008