Information Society Watch

2006, Barbara Huddleston, Ergin Ataman, Mirella Salvatore and Mario Bloise, Food and Agriculture Organisation

This report explains how georeferenced information can be used to bring greater precision to the understanding of spatially-related factors underlying poverty and food insecurity, and discusses the role of the Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System (FIVIMS) in promoting greater use of geospatial information. A new georeferenced database for analysing poverty and environment links – the Food Insecurity, Poverty and Environment Global GIS Database (FGGD) – is introduced and early efforts to make greater use of map products for monitoring poverty and food insecurity indicators are reviewed. The report also reviews the demand for better information that emerged during the Summit decade, culminating with the Millennium Summit in 2000. It concludes with a brief summary of opportunities for using the FGGD for the spatial analysis of links between poverty and environment, and applying the results to current policy issues (Adapted from authors).

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