February 2016

Consolidated Approach for Reporting Food Insecurity

Dimension Specific Indicator Definition of Threshold

Food Secure Borderline Food Insecure

Moderately Food Insecure

Severely Food Insecure

Current Status

Foodconsumption

Foodconsumption score

Acceptable Borderline Poor

Access to food inlong-term

Economic vulnerability

Proportion of income spent on food

<50% 50% - 60% 65% - 75% >75%

Depletion of assets

Degree of negative coping

None Stress Crisis Emergency

Dimensions of Hunger

Proportion of population

Source: EFSA 2015

5.9% 43.6% 35.3% 15.2%

More than 50%

Depletion of Assets – Exhaustion of Coping Capacity

Source: EFSA 20150.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0%

Send an HH member to find work elsewhere

Sell domestic assets

Borrow money or food

Spend savings

Sell productive assets

Reduce spendings on non food essentials

Take children out of school

Sell house/land

Engage in illegal activities

Beg

50% of HHs have sold productive assets (of whom 37% have nothing left to sell)

24% of HHs have sold land to meet food needs (17% no longer have land left to sell)

55% of HHs have sold domestic assets (35% have nothing left)

Have used and no longer an option – Exhausted strategy

Yes using

February 2016

People affected differently by crisis

Male IDP in Bambari – Injured at outset of conflict Female IDP in Bambari – Self-identified mother

- Both have been displaced since the escalation of the conflict in C.A.R. - Both expressed concern about how will continue to access food

- Each faces different obstacles

Continued Displacement Crisis

Evolution in internal displacement in C.A.R.

Source: OCHA

Fundamental Changes

Source: CFSAM 2015

In Yellow – those regions deserted by pastoralists since escalation of conflict

Focusing on the most affected areas

Scaling Up Malnutrition Prevention

Paving way for recovery of livelihoods and cohesion

When: June 2015Where: Bambari, C.A.R.Who: Woman returnee and farmerBeneficiary : Seeds from FAO and food from WFP Impact: Planted for first time since escalation of conflict

June – Dec

Reinforcing Cross-Country Supply Corridors

--- 2015 primary corridor, to be reinforced

--- 2015 occasional corridor, to be reinforced

--- Potential additional corridors, being explored

Supply Corridors:

Primary logistics hub