1. EMERGENCY FOOD RESERVES mitigating the impact of high and volatile food prices on the hungry poor

2. ETHIOPIA 1984

3. ETHIOPIA 2009

4. food reserves linked to safety nets can reduce the human and economic cost of weather related disasters

5. can they do the same during periods of high and volatile food prices?

6. to answer that question, we needed to know … TWO THINGS …

7. FIRST how do high and volatile prices affect access to food in poor food deficit countries?

8. HIGH AND VOLATILE FOOD PRICES can limit access to food for the most vulnerable

9. can defeat traditional coping strategies HIGH AND VOLATILE FOOD PRICES

10. SECOND if a food reserve is appropriate, how might it best be designed?

11. STUDIED EXISTING MODELS

12. EAERR

13. SAARC

14. SADC

15. ETHIOPIA

16. MALI

17. What did we lean? WHAT DID WE LEARN?

18. GO REGIONAL

21. Think Small THINK SMALL

22. COMPLEMENT EXISTING STRUCTURES

23. BUILD TO LAST

24. TARGET THE MOST VULNERABLE

26. ENSURE OWNERSHIP

27. GOVERN EFFECTIVELY

28. Be Transparent BE TRANSPARENT

29. STRENGTHEN CAPACITY

30. WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

31. COMMITMENT

32. CAPITAL

33. COLLABORATION

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