State of Food Security in The Gambia: Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis, November 2021

Banjul (The Gambia), World Food Programme (WFP): 2021.

English

109 p.

WFPELR2974

The Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) is a nationwide food security study conducted every five years, which generates evidence and comparable baseline information on food and nutrition security and the vulnerability of households and how they cope with in the context of food and nutrition crisis. The 2021 CFSVA is the third one conducted in The Gambia following the one in 2011 and the other one in 2016, and it analysed the food security situation in the context of COVID-19 and provided analysis at the regional and national level. This required obtaining information on the socio-economic and agricultural context, food situation, markets, livelihoods, coping strategies, education, health, and expenditure patterns of households. The 2021 CFSVA provides the government, UN agencies and other development partners, non-governmental and civil society organizations, and the academia timely and relevant information on household’s food and nutrition insecurity as well as their vulnerability status. It attempts to provide answers to the following key questions: who and how many people are food insecure? How are they affected? and where are they located?

Electronic ed.

ELR 2974

English