Global food security is increasingly threatened by climate change, severe conflicts and high food prices.
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New dashboard to track food and nutrition security and global response

The Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS), jointly convened by the German Group of Seven (G7) Presidency and the World Bank Group, launched the Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard as a key tool to fast-track a rapid response to the unfolding global food security crisis.

In a joint press release, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the World Bank announced the launch last November of the new dashboard to track food and nutrition security.  Following a multi-stakeholder consultative process, the Dashboard is designed to consolidate and present up-to-date data on food crisis severity, track global food security financing, and make available global and country-level research and analysis to improve coordination of the policy and financial response to the crisis.

The Dashboard is a publicly accessible platform. It will bring together disparate and vast information on food security in one place, to help reduce transaction costs, improve transparency, and strengthen analysis. It can also help speed-up financing by highlighting funding needs and gaps. The goal is to inform a coordinated global food crisis response while also helping to advance medium- to long-term food security interventions.

Quality data on global food and nutrition security is urgently needed
 

A global hunger crisis is unfolding, exacerbated largely by violent conflicts, increasingly extreme weather events, and record high food prices. Quality data and transparent reporting have the potential to boost food and nutrition security - enhancing global cooperation and enabling the development of sound national policies.

“The development of the dashboard is an example for the strength and innovative power we can achieve when we join forces globally. It has become possible thanks to the excellent cooperation between many organisations and partner countries and the World Bank,” said Svenja Schulze, German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development. “The comprehensible data presented in the dashboard is key for a swift and coordinated political response to guarantee food security for countries and people. In order to get the food to where it is most needed, we need to get the necessary information to where it can be used most quickly and efficiently.”

The Dashboard will also help facilitate and disseminate forward-looking research and generate new knowledge on topics such as food-security early-warning analytics, soil fertility solutions for building resilience to fertiliser price and supply shocks, evaluating food security programming and policy response effectiveness, and strengthening national agricultural research and innovation systems.

“The world deserves resilient, sustainable food systems that are good for people, the planet and the economy,” said David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group. “We aim not only to get us out of the current crisis, but to make our global food systems more resilient to future crises. This Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard is an important step in the journey towards better food systems.”

(BMZ/wi)

 

More information:

Link to Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard

Link to video on the Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard

The Global Alliance for Food Security

 

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