True capacity development in agriculture and sustainable food systems cannot thrive without credible, high-quality, in-field entrenched data and research. We are firmly committed to support research and data-driven initiatives that are grounded in real-world experiences.
Our approach ensures that our insights are not only accurate and reliable but also directly applicable to the challenges faced in the field.
Therefore, together with our partners we are building a Food Security Data Platform for African countries. This endeavor aims at the creation of a data-driven food security monitoring system.
It answers the alarming and massive data deficit which prevents, in the absence of a quality data properly collected, certified, formatted, modelled and streamlined, adequate and meaningful assessment of food and nutrition security needs and solutions in Africa.
We, at Stockholm Initiative and among our partners are of course aware of the abundant availability on the international developmental scene of various indices and data gathering mechanisms and programs. We are however attentive to the fact that one of the most critical development areas which is food and nutrition security, may remain permanently illusive without an adequate proper and comprehensive data-driven monitoring system
In the fight against food insecurity and for sustainable agriculture in Africa, one fact is clear: we need data—and we need it from the ground up. At Stockholm Initiative, we are devoted to gathering credible, high-quality data directly from the field and local communities because we believe that sustainable change begins with the right information.
Indexing food security serves the purpose of offering a tool to assess, compare and understand the food security topic in a consistent and somehow harmonized approach. Such index often offers the basis to form opinions, design or evaluate strategies, policies across regions or countries. In the hands of institutions, national aid agencies, donors, such measure becomes an objective base to grant and condition loans or extend financial aids.
The thinking at the core of global agricultural policy-making, funding and regulating has been remarkably stable for the past half century. It is built around the following pillars:
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