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Publications
Latest versions of Forum publications are
accessible from this page as they become available.
Click here if you also wish to see proceedings
of the country food security policy options meetings held
in Lesotho, Malawi,
Zambia and Zimbabwe
during 2004.
Policy Options Papers
- Regional food security options synthesis
paper, based on the results of
the e-discussions and high
level country policy seminars, setting out the policy options
relevant to each organising theme, and referring to the
likely scope for addressing the issues under each theme
in the immediate recovery period and longer-term.
- Regional food security options conclusion
paper. Setting out relevant policy options, priorities,
timing, costing and key stakeholders.
Country Food Security
Options Papers
For each focus country, the major findings of the Country
Issues Papers, Theme Papers, in-country seminars and workshops
have been collated into Country Food Security Options Papers
with the aim of setting out potential policy options for strengthening
food security. Click on the links below to view Adobe pdf
versions of the papers:
In two focus countries, additional studies were conducted
on issues of specific interest:
- on the local level impact of food aid in Zambia
- and on civil society perspectives on food security in
Malawi
Theme papers
The food security policy implications of the issues raised
under each theme in the country papers are explored in detail
by internationally recognised experts using high quality economic,
institutional and political analysis applied to the evidence
base in the region, informed where relevant by evidence from
other parts of the South. The four full Theme Papers and two
supplementary papers summarise current understanding on six
of the issues central to longer-term food security in Southern
Africa set out below, highlighting policy options and trade-offs.
- Theme Paper 1: Politics in the Policy Process:
What are the underlying political economy and governance
issues that are affecting the practical results of current
food policy in the region; what are the implications for
delivering assistance.
- Theme Paper 2: Market-based economic development:
The potential for economic growth in different sectors to
stimulate and sustain wider growth, poverty reduction and
increased food security in the region.
- Theme Paper 3: Human vulnerability: Better understanding
of how the vulnerability context for poor people in the
region has changed over the last decade; the implications
of this for supporting poverty alleviation and food security.
- Theme Paper 4: Social protection: The principles
that should guide the selection of macro and micro safety
net interventions to support secure access to food for the
most vulnerable and the same time as contributing to more
lucrative livelihoods for all Southern Africans.
- E-discussion Papers: Regional integration and coordination:
The extent to which greater integration and coordination
in sectors such as early warning, crisis response, and grain
marketing can contribute to improved food security in the
region.
- E-discussion Paper: Research-policy linkages: What,
when, why and how can research better feed into food policy
in the region.
Click on the links below to view the papers:
Country issues papers
The purpose of these five papers is to root the subsequent
Forum discussions firmly around the current priority food
security concerns in the selected countries. The papers are
authored locally by an individual or group able to set out
objectively the key food security concerns, and the detailed
arguments and questions behind them, that have been identified
by government, donors and civil society in the country concerned.
Country papers are grouped around four organising themes:
vulnerability context; market-based development options; social
protection needs; and policy processes. They include a description
of current government and donor policies, strategies and plans
relevant to food security.
Click on the links below to view the papers:
| Mudimu, G. (2003)
Zimbabwe Food Security Issues Paper |
(252kb) |
| Mphale, M.M.,
Rwambali, E.G. and Sechaba Consultants (2003) Lesotho
Food Security Issues Paper |
(385kb)
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| Cammack, D.,
Chulu, O., Khaila, S. and Ng'ong'ola, D. (2003) Malawi
Food Security Issues Paper |
(298kb)
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| Selvester, K.
and Castro, M.A. (2003) Mozambique
Food Security Issues Paper |
(268kb)
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| Kalinda, T.,
Maimbo, F. and Mushimba, M. (2003)
Zambia Food Security Issues Paper |
(370kb)
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