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Holding planning meetings in locations where representatives from such bodies wouldmost likely be able to participate helps gain input, and hence an insight into policyinterests;the establishment of advisory panels including representatives from such agencies helpsto ensure ‘in-reach’;scenario analyses conducted at the regional level help to systematically explore policyand technical options, and provide a valuable means of integrating the policy dimension;having a clear question posed and drafted in terms that potential stakeholders can easilyrelate to, helps both attract interest and identifies the role each can play;the signing of MoUs and/or the formal endorsement of research plans can be a powerfulway of demonstrating this buy-in to other potential stakeholders, including donors.Ultimately, of course, success will depend on establishing good working relationships with arange of stakeholders, so as to set and undertake an agenda that is both scientifically excitingand relevant to improved regional food security policy and resource management.104
From Food Production to Food Security:Developing interdisciplinary, regional-level researchPart IV: Reflections and ConclusionWhy the thesis title and thesis questions are appropriate, and how the papers addressthe questionsAs discussed in the Introduction, attaining food security for all is clearly more complicatedthan just producing more food; the world produces more than enough food for everyone, yetaround one billion people are without sufficient food and millions more are nutrient deficient(Pinstrup-Andersen, 2009). The fundamental issue therefore concerns access to nutritiousfood rather than food production, and this notion is now well accepted as the key factordetermining food security (Foresight, 2011). A research agenda to addresses food securitytherefore has to address a range of issues in addition to food production. These relate toaccess to food and utilisation of food, as well as to availability of food.For most people a key factor determining access to food is its affordability. This is dependentnot only on food cost but also on the disposable income that can be spent on food. Access isalso determined by the way society allocates food to its members (or withholds it, usually forpolitical reasons), and our food preferences. Our food security also depends on the ways inwhich we use food and its functions; food must fulfil our nutritional needs and must be safeto consume, but it also plays a number of social and religious roles. Food availability isfundamentally dependent on food production, but this can be local or distant. If distant, localfood availability will also depend on trade systems, and on packaging, transport and storage.This will all add to the cost to the consumer, unless the cost of production at distance is somuch less than locally so as to off-set these additional costs. Other ‘costs’ however include,for instance, environmental impacts of food transport, and competition for work in the foodproduction sector locally. Better quantification and assessment of all such factors is requiredto determine the full ‘cost’ of food.Finally, and as stressed by (Stamoulis and Zezza, 2003) in relation to the 1996 FAO foodsecurity definition, the three major components of food security (availability, access andutilisation) must all be stable over time. Indeed, one definition of food security encompassesthe notion of removing the threat of future food insecurity: “A family is food secure when itsmembers do not live in hunger or fear of hunger” (USAID, 2001).105
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