11 Jun 2009

WFP / ECONOMIC SHOCK AND HUNGER INDEX (ESHI)

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) announces the results of a ground-breaking five-country study on the effects the financial crisis is having on families, many of whom were already going hungry. FILE

Posted at: June 11, 2009 1:10 pm

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STORY: WFP / ECONOMIC SHOCK AND HUNGER INDEX
TRT: 1.00
SOURCE: UNTV / WORLD BANK / UNICEF / PAHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE – UNICEF- 28 MARCH- 01 APRIL 2009, BOUBAZAR SLUM, KAFRUL, BANGLADESH

1. Med shot, health workers walking through a narrow slum lane
2. Close up, child eating food
3. Wide shot, women, one holding a child
4. Med shot, tilt down, health worker opening a packet of micro-nutrient
5. Med shot, food mixed with micro-nutrient
6. Close up, health worker mixing micro nutrient with food
7. Wide shot, man handing groceries to woman
8. Various shots, family eating

FILE – WORLD BANK – 2007, GHANA

9. Med shot, rice vendor Ghana
10. Close up, rice sack tight Ghana
11. Med shot, farmer in wheat field Ghana

FILE – WORLD BANK -2004, ZAMBIA

12. Wide shot, market
13. Various shots, infants being weighed

FILE – PAHO – 2002, NICARAGUA

14. Wide shot, women workshop in rural area

FILE- UNTV – DATE UNKNOWN, NICARAGUA

15. Various shots, mother tending to children Nicaragua

STORYLINE:

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) today announced the results  of  a  ground-breaking  five-country  study  on  the  effects  the financial crisis  is  having  on families, many of whom were already going hungry.

The case studies focused on Armenia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Zambia, but are intended to illustrate the situation in countries facing similar challenges. WFP food security experts reported that the majority of households are coping by reducing the number of meals eaten per day or serving up cheaper but less nutritious foods. Some families are spending less on health care or withdrawing their children from school.

WFP has designed an Economic Shock and Hunger Index (ESHI), which uses economic variables and food security indicators to identify which countries will be hit hardest by the financial crisis. It analyzed 126 countries and drew up a "watch list" of countries where factors such as workers' remittances, exports, debt or exchange rate fluctuations could limit people's ability to put food on the table. Based on the ESHI index it initiated five case studies.

The studies found the groups most affected by the financial crisis were unskilled workers in urban areas, families who rely on remittances from abroad, workers laid off from the export sectors and those working in mining and tourism. The worst hit were not necessarily the poorest of the poor, however, but a new group of people who face a downward slide into poverty.

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