SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 3 (book p. 20, PDF p. 27)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) preparedness and mitigation measures, which take into account an analysis of past hazard events, seasonal weather patterns, and their potential impact on production activities, have resulted in development of an early action plan to address humanitarian crises in the Somali peninsula in the Horn of Africa region.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 4 (book p. 32, PDF p. 39)
Using a combination of past data on rainfall trends and their impact of food and nutrition security, and forecasts based on global models, the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) in Ethiopia has developed two likely scenarios for food security and associated recommendations to address nutritional gaps, livelihoods, and conflict management.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 4 (book p. 32, PDF p. 39)
Humanitarian Actors for Grass Root Initiatives (HAGI) used the sociocultural and demographic details collected using a baseline survey to identify the right combination of activities to support food-insecure households in Rumbek East, South Sudan in meeting their short-term recovery as well as longer-term economic improvement goals.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 5 (book p. 53, PDF p. 60)
Increasing households’ access to quality seeds, farming tools, and locally adapted extension services helped conflict-affected households in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) significantly increase their food consumption and overall food self-sufficiency.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 5 (book p. 53, PDF p. 60)
The article examines a series of practical actions for matching the type of the response more closely to the actual seed security problem.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 5 (book p. 53, PDF p. 60)
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) used vouchers to increase community access to seeds and improve food security.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 5 (book p. 53, PDF p. 60)
The authors analyzed 10 case studies from interventions with a supply-side focus in eight countries (Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia)
using the seed security conceptual framework parameters of seed access, availability, and seed quality.
They added “information” to these parameters and conclude that much more documentation of market-based approaches to intervention in emergency contexts is required to assess the initial needs
of farmers and the subsequent results of the intervention.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 5 (book p. 53, PDF p. 60)
Home garden programs are frequently used by households for surplus income generation and have a positive impact on household nutrition. Key factors for designing, implementing, and monitoring vegetable seed responses include assessing appropriateness of vegetable seed intervention in the project locations, seed systems assessment, designing the assistance package, and developing the right kind of indicators.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 5 (book p. 53, PDF p. 60)
Evidence from Seed System Security Assessments (SSSAs) done in different contexts in Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Haiti, and Kenya shows that seed systems are relatively resilient to short-term crises. Various measures (including eight principles and 15 practical recommendations) are needed to strengthen formal and informal seed systems over the medium to long term to make them more resilient.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 5 (book p. 53, PDF p. 60)
Oxfam supported communities impacted by hailstorms in cultivating alternative crops like chickpeas to help them take advantage of the last cycle of the rainy season and reduce their crop losses.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 6 (book p. 76, PDF p. 83)
The Food and Agriculture of the United Nations’ (FAO) strategies on unconditional and restricted cash cost share helped displaced households in South Ossetia access critical input like water to increase crop production and strengthen food security.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 6 (book p. 76, PDF p. 83)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) direct distribution of inputs like seeds, fertilizers, and tools helped typhoon-affected households in the Philippines restart their agricultural activities and produce food to meet self-sufficiency levels.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 6 (book p. 76, PDF p. 83)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provides tailored farm machinery support to conflict-affected farmers in the Gaza Strip to address their specific needs around quick harvest and to reduce risk to their lives.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 6 (book p. 76, PDF p. 83)
African Women Rising’s (AWR) tailored and locally appropriate support packages to women helped them in the setting up of kitchen gardens not only to increase food availability and strengthen nutritional outcomes but also to contribute to their income from the sale of surplus vegetable production.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 6 (book p. 76, PDF p. 83)
Agriculture specialists working on longer-term projects in the region developed a responsive package of assistance to support internally displaced people (IDPs) to strengthen their food security. The bundling approach from Samaritan’s Purse helped IDP communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) access a wide range of necessary inputs like seeds, farm tools, and trainings on crucial cropping practices, which helped households significantly increase their food self-sufficiency.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 7 (book p. 95, PDF p. 102)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) rehabilitated a water-harvesting structure to improve crop-related livelihoods in Gaza Strip. Crop-related infrastructure like irrigation ponds and rainwater harvesting systems help farmers not just increase their crop yield but also extend the production cycle by a couple of months.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 7 (book p. 95, PDF p. 102)
FAO’s cash-for-work (CFW) interventions in Pakistan helped achieve the twin objectives of providing income-generation opportunities for unskilled laborers and restoring irrigation channels that were rendered non-functional due to floods and siltation to improve food self-sufficiency.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 7 (book p. 95, PDF p. 102)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided direct assistance by repairing the greenhouses of conflict-affected farmers in Gaza Strip. This intervention not only helped in building back better but also contributed to an increase in farm productivity, a reduction in the cost of production, and an increase in profitability.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 7 (book p. 95, PDF p. 102)
The small-scale irrigation component of Oxfam’s Sustainable Livelihoods project in Eritrea emphasized participation in design and implementation. Results showed increases in production.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 8 (book p. 113, PDF p. 120)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) technically plausible integrated approach for the livelihood recovery project helped flood-affected households in Pakistan not just increase their crop production but also increase income and nutritional outcomes.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 8 (book p. 113, PDF p. 120)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provided a wide range of livelihood recovery support to households impacted by cyclone in Myanmar to help them increase income, contributing to building livelihood assets in the long run.
SEADS Handbook Location: Chapter 8 (book p. 113, PDF p. 120)
Benefit cost analysis helps assess the cost efficiency of a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project in Ethiopia during project implementation and arising from a single harvest.