FOOD SECURITY AND MONITORING SYSTEMS - Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability - page 27

Food insecurity

Poverty

Change in priorities
for households
Health care utilization

Intake

Economic crisis

Local food prices

Food production
(auto-consumption)

Expenditure on education

Psychological well-being

Environmental
change and
agricultural
vulnerability

Variable global
commodity prices
(food, fuel, inputs)

Changes in
nutrition outcomes

Land cover
change

Seasonality and
rainfall

Short term

Climate variability and
anthropogenic drivers

Negative
economic growth
rate

Stunting
Wasting
Infant birth weights

Morbidity

Long term

Poor cognitive
development

Adaptation to
changes in resources

Mortality

FIGURE 2.2 Conceptual framework that links climate variability and anthropogenic drivers to their consequences on food production to food prices
(source: derived from Darnton-Hill and Cogill, 2009; Woldetsadik, 2011).

Note
Light grey boxes are observable environmental parameters, mid-grey boxes are household-level factors, grey boxes are individual factors and dark grey boxes are societal
factors.