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as data-visualization tools. Event announce- ment pages facilitate networking activities among AGRODEP members, staff, partners, and gover- nance groups.


Website: www.agrodep.org Contacts: Ousmane Badiane and Betina Dimaranan Email: info-agrodep@agrodep.org


FOOD SECURITY PORTAL


Te price of food has far-reaching effects, having an impact on everything from poverty and nutrition to trade and markets to social and political unrest. Tis makes access to accurate, relevant, and useful global price and market information more impor- tant than ever. Te Food Security Portal is a unique tool that provides users—including researchers, decisionmakers, and the media—with a one-stop resource for the latest food security information. Te Portal informs the global food security dis-


cussion with breaking news; regularly updated data from leading organizations like the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Trade Orga- nization, and the US Department of Agriculture; and interactive data-analysis tools. Policymakers can use the information and tools to track and ana- lyze food security and price trends, enabling them to enact more informed, effective policies. Te Food Security News Hot Spot heatmap


provides instant visualization of countries with the most food-security news items on a given day. Te data API in the developer toolkit contains data for more than 40 indicators related to food security, commodity prices, economics, and human well- being. Users can download this data to track calo- rie supplies per capita, percent of undernourished children, consumer price indexes, global inflation, poverty rates, exports, imports, population infor- mation, and more. One of the newest tools in the Food Security


Portal is the Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System. Tis one-of-a-kind tool provides a


visual representation of historical periods of exces- sive global price volatility from 2000 to the present, as well as a daily volatility status. Tis status can alert policymakers when world markets are expe- riencing a period of excessive food price volatility. Te information can then be used to determine appropriate country-level food-security responses, such as the release of physical food stocks. Tis tool supports two recommendations of the 2011 G20 meetings. First, it provides information to the Agriculture Market Information System (AMIS) on price variability in global markets and identifies the presence and duration of excessive price vari- ability. Second, it supports the design of emergency humanitarian food reserves coordinated by the World Food Programme (WFP).


Website: www.foodsecurityportal.org Contact: Sara Gustafson Email: s.gustafson@cgiar.org


FOOD SECURITY CASE MAPS


Te Food Security Climate, Agriculture, and Socio-Economic Maps soſtware (CASE Maps) is an interactive mapping tool policymakers and researchers can use to view potential changes in agricultural supply, demand, and food security based on different economic and biophysical driv- ers over time and across the globe. Tese interac- tive maps are based on data generated for Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050, published by IFPRI in 2010. CASE Maps display the exogenous model drivers and plausible future outcomes based on IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) model. Te CASE Maps translate numerical results into


a range of graphic representations, including scater plots, bar charts, time-series graphs, histograms, and other basic statistical outputs. Tose inter- ested in climate change and its potential effects on food security in developing countries can view


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