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Monitoring the number of undernourished people provides a way to gauge how much progress has been made and how much remains to be accomplished. It keeps attention focused on the target. But knowing the number is not enough to guide action. For that, more specific information is needed about the groups of people who are at high risk of food insecurity and the factors that create this risk.
Empirical vulnerability analysis has evolved substantially in the past decade. Much of the effort to date has focused on finding ways to identify specific geographic areas where vulnerable and food-insecure people are most likely to be found. But in the end it is the condition of people that counts. To find out who is vulnerable, and why, the Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS) secretariat has begun to compile a database on vulnerable groups, based on a thorough review of recent literature and results from intensive, interdisciplinary brainstorming sessions carried out by participating countries. FIVIMS has identified six principle types of vulnerable groups. An example from each of these groups can be found by clicking on the links below.
Incidence of malnutrition in vulnerable
areas
Victims of
conflict: Returnees in
Guatemala
Dependent
people in large, low-income households: Urban poor in
Auckland, New Zealand
Marginal
urban population groups: Pensioners in Baku,
Azerbaijan
Poor
households in vulnerable livelihood systems: Pastoralist in
Sahelian Zones
Migrant
workers and their families: Seasonal migrants in
Benin
At-risk
social groups: Isolated minorities in Viet
Nam
