Food Security Portal

The website Food Security Portal seeks to provide comprehensive and detailed country-by-country information on food policy developments. The open access portal is sponsored by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)’s "World Food Crisis" project and was designed to pool information in structured ways and check for data quality and relevance. IFPRI intends to make information about food crisis response in its 20 partner countries in Sub-Sahara Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean available for research, policy development, monitoring, and capacity strengthening to facilitate identification and implementation of appropriate policy actions in response to the food crisis.

The portal includes a research-based capacity strengthening “tool box” designed to guide country responses. According to information provided on the Food Security Portal, rapid communication with experts in the field can be facilitated in order to provide advice on urgently needed policy actions.

Data on the site are organised under tabs such as country, commodities, news and food for thought, policy analysis tools, and a developer toolkit. Communication-related tools in the policy analysis section include a food security curriculum development for teachers, a training manual on the implications of economic policy for food security, and other tools designed to assist project personnel in the field to take research from analysis to action.