Papua New Guinea, mVAM Bulletin 4: mVAM Food Security & Livelihoods Monitoring System

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2018.

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Between 6 November and 26 December 2017 the World Food Programme (WFP), in support of the Department of Agriculture and Livestock (DAL), the National Statistics Office, and the National Disaster Centre (NDC), conducted the fourth nation-wide mobile survey. The survey was carried out in 326 LLGs (Local Level Government) and a total of 4,450 respondents were interviewed by phone from the Digicel call centre in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Approximately 25 percent of households surveyed throughout the country were estimated to be severely food insecure according to the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), an official indicator used to track progress towards the SDG target of zero hunger. While not directly comparable to the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) used in the three previous surveys, a deterioration is evident across a range of indicators that the monitoring system has measured since January 2016. In the 22 LLGs deemed as “food insecurity hotspots”, an estimated 310,665 people ( ~ 62,133 households) are severely food insecure. Tribal conflict, the recent elections, and drought were among the common reported causes of food insecurity

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