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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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Food Security Assessment Points to Insecurity in Uganda
October 28, 2003
An overview of the food security situation among the 416,000 Internally Displaced Peoples in the war affected district of Gulu, northern Uganda.

Action Against Hunger USA has just carried out a food security assessment in the war affected district of Gulu, in northern Uganda. According to the World Food Program (WFP), over 416,000 people are internally displaced in the area, i.e. 89% of the total population.

Food Security Assessment, Gulu IDP Camps, Uganda [653KB]

Summary of Findings

The main findings and recommendations of this report are:

  • Plot sizes for agriculture are being reduced - the average household plot size was only 1.25 acres (.51ha) in 2003 vs. 2.2 acres (.9ha) in 2002
  • Estimated average incomes have been reduced from US $465 in 1999 to $120 in 2003. At the same time household expenditures for food are increasing.
  • The seasonal hunger gap has increased to three months.
  • Food stocks are highly vulnerable to post-harvest losses, contamination, and looting.

If the situation continues in this manner the Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) are at risk for the following:

  • Increased malnutrition especially for the population of children under-five years of age
  • Seed sources may become insecure

If such insecurity persists, the following steps will be required:

  • WFP food rations will have to be maintained at a 100% level
  • Distribution of maize meal instead of whole grain maize
  • Regular monitoring of nutrition and food security situation
  • Reduction of necessary household expenditures
  • Increased involvement in food security outside of distribution

About Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF), an international relief and development organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and families, provides sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger. For nearly three decades, ACF has pursued its vision of a world without hunger by combating hunger in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity.

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