Monitoring Local Food Security and Coping Strategies: Lessons from Information Collection and Analysis in Mopti, Mali
- 18 December 1994
- Vol. 18 (4) , 332-343
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.1994.tb00320.x
Abstract
Save the Children Fund (UK) established a local food security monitoring project in the Mopti region of Mali, which was operational between 1987 and 1993. This article describes some of the lessons learnt from this experience of monitoring food security and coping strategies. It illustrates how coping strategies can be an important element in tracking vulnerability in the Sahel, but that interpretation is complex and there are limitations to their use. Secondly, consideration must be given to the institutional context in which information systems are set up. Information providers must be linked institutionally to response mechanisms, to ensure that data are fed systematically into the design, implementation and monitoring of appropriate response.Keywords
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