PART ONE -- PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Historic Background to Food Security Information Systems -- Advantages of the FSIEWS Approach -- Technical Aspects of the Methodology -- Definition of Food Security -- 2. THE CONCEPT OF FORECASTING AND STEERING -- 3. EXISTING FOOD SECURITY MONITORING SYSTEMS -- -- 3.1 Description of Existing Systems -- Institutions -- -- -- 3.1.2 Market Information System€(MIS) -- Tools -- Institutions -- -- -- 3.1.3 Monitoring Vulnerable Groups (MVG) -- Institutions -- 3.1.4 Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (FNSS) -- 3.1.5 Other existing monitoring systems that may be used in food security -- 3.2 Constraints of the Systems -- 3.2.1 Poor organization -- 3.2.3 Functional constraints -- 3.3 Recent Changes in the Socio-Economic Context -- 4. CRISIS MANAGEMENT -- 5. THE FRAMEWORK OF A FSIEWS -- PART TWO -- STAGES IN DEFINING AND SETTING UP A FSIEWS -- CHAPTER I -- STAGE ONE: BASIC STUDY OF FOOD SECURITY -- 1. ESTABLISHING THE BASIC ENERGY REQUIREMENTS -- -- The Commodity Chain Approach -- Brief Outline of a Commodity Chain -- Limitations of the Commodity Chain Approach -- 6. SYNTHESIS OF THE BASIC STUDY -- CHAPTER II -- STAGE TWO: DETAILED ANALYSIS OF AVAILABLE INFORMATION -- -- 5.1 Food Aid -- 5.1.2 Information on managing food-aid stocks -- 5.1.3 Information regarding the distribution of food aid and assistance -- 5.2 Population Movements -- CHAPTER III -- STAGE THREE: HOW TO IMPROVE EXISTING INFORMATION -- 1. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION MONITORING AND HARVEST FORECASTS -- -- 1.1 Data -- 1.2 Data Analysis -- 1.3 Constraints -- 1.4 Improving Existing Systems and Monitoring Production -- 1.4.1 At organizational level -- 1.4.2 At the technical level -- 1.4.3 Monitoring animal production and fishery products -- 2. MARKET INFORMATION SYSTEMS, STOCKS AND MARKETING42.

2.1 The Institutional Structure of an MIS -- 2.2 Data -- Monitoring markets -- The storage of products -- Imports and exports -- 2.3 Data Analysis and Dissemination of Information -- 2.4 Principal Constraints of an MIS -- 3. VULNERABLE GROUPS MONITORING SYSTEM -- -- 3.1 Defining Vulnerable Groups, or at Risk to Food Insecurity -- 3.2 Data -- 3.2.1 Monitoring poverty -- 3.2.2 Monitoring physical access to supplies -- 3.2.3 Monitoring coping strategies -- 3.3 Monitoring Vulnerability during Food Crises -- 4. FOOD AND NUTRITION SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM -- -- 4.1 The Institutional Framework and Setting Up an FNSS -- 4.2 Data -- 4.3 Data Processing -- 4.4 FNSS in Crisis Management -- 5. MONITORING DIRECT FOOD AID AND ASSISTANCE -- -- 5.1 Monitoring Aid -- 5.2 Setting Up a Monitoring System in Emergency Situations -- CHAPTER IV -- STAGE FOUR: SETTING UP THE FOOD SECURITY INFORMATION AND EARLY WARNING SYSTEM -- 1. SURVEY OF FOOD SECURITY INFORMATION USERS -- 2. SUGGESTED INDICATORS FOR THE DATABASES AND CONTROL PANEL -- 3. A PLAN FOR THE FLOW OF DATA AND ITS MANAGEMENT -- 4. PROPOSED INSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MONITORING FOOD SECURITY AND MANAGING EMERGENCIES -- 5. VALIDATION OF INDICATORS AND THE TYPE AND FORMAT OF INFORMATION TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO USERS (ORGANIZING THE NATIONAL WORKSHOP) -- CHAPTER V -- STAGE FIVE: STEPS TO THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF A FSIEWS -- 3. ESTABLISHING AGREEMENT PROTOCOLS WITH INFORMATION PROVIDERS -- 4. GRADUAL DEPLOYMENT OF THE DATABASE AND CONTROL PANEL -- 5. MAPPING AND OTHER SOFTWARE -- 6. ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY COMMITTEE PERMANENT SECRETARIAT -- 7. BULLETINS, RADIO OR TELEVISION BROADCASTS, UPDATES, ETC. -- 8. REGULAR SUPERVISION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE FSIEWS BY THE NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY COMMITTEE -- 9. ADAPTING THE FSIEWS TO SPECIFIC NATIONAL CONTEXTS (EXAMPLE OF MOZAMBIQUE).

PART THREE -- SUSTAINABILITY: THE LONG-TERM VIEW -- 1. REGULAR UPDATING AND EVOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM -- 2. EVALUATION OF THE SYSTEM -- 3. NATIONAL FSIEWS IN A REGIONAL (INTERSTATE) CONTEXT -- 4. DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES -- 5. THE ROLE OF THE FSIEWS IN THE FIVIMS INITIATIVE -- 6. INTERACTION WITH THE GIEWS.