About us
This site was created for the project Improving Methods for Poverty and Food Insecurity Mapping and Its Use at Country Level, funded by the Government of Norway and running from 2001-2004. The site is currently continously maintained by UNEP/GRID-Arendal. On this web site you find country case studies from this project (described in more detail below) as well as a library of related maps, graphics and publications. We are happy to add any poverty mapping related maps or publications to this website, please notify the webmaster with your suggestions.
Poverty mapping project
Poverty Mapping is a joint initiative by FAO, UNEP and the CGIAR - and partners - dedicated to:
- analyse and map the spatial distribution of poverty
- produce and promote the use of poverty maps and show linkages between poverty and food insecurity, the environment and development
- promote the use of poverty maps in policy making and targeting assistance.
Implementing agencies of the (now closed) project, and owners in this web-site.
FIVIMS
Poverty and Food Insecurity Mapping Project
Environment and Natural Resources Service (SDRN)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Via delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome
ITALY
Phone: +39 06 5705 5510
Fax: +39 06 5705 3369
GIS-Manager{at}fao.org Replace {at} with @ to send e-mail
www.fao.org
UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Service Box 706
N-4808 Arendal
NORWAY
Phone: +47 370 35659
Fax: +47 370 35050
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
A.A. 6713
Cali
COLOMBIA
Phone: +57 2 445 0000 (direct)
+1 650 833 6625 (via USA)
Fax: +57 2 445 0073 (direct)
+1 650 833 6626 (via USA)
ciat {at} cgiar.org Replace {at} with @ to send e-mail
www.ciat.cgiar.org
General background
With funding from the Government of Norway, three international organizations have come together to sharpen and enhance the use of state-of-the-art methodologies and tools for mapping poverty, food insecurity, and vulnerability. CIAT representing the CSI (Consortium on Spatial Information) of the CGIAR Centres (Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research), UNEP-GRID Arendal and FAO will jointly work on establishing a network of individuals and institutions active in mapping poverty taking into consideration biophysical, environmental and socio-economic factors in an integrated manner.
Poverty Mapping is a joint venture that will be a model for effective collaboration on the ground amongst international organizations, in the common search for solutions to food insecurity and poverty in the world. It has the potential to contribute to the accelerated accomplishment of the World Food Summit's goal, which is to halve the number of undernourished by 2015, as well as to various poverty reduction initiatives that are gaining ground amongst donors. Being shown where and why there are large numbers poor people is an essential precondition to the start of the solution.
The three partners (CIAT, UNEP-GRID and FAO) have established a project Steering Committee and a Project Management Group to guide and manage the implementation of the Project. The Inter-Agency Working Group on FIVIMS (Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System) will provide general oversight and will facilitate links with key international agencies, donors and NGOs involved in one way or another with the mapping of food insecurity and poverty.
Agencies involved in mapping of food insecurity and poverty
Through the Inter-Agency Working Group on Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System (FIVIMS) the Poverty Mapping project is linked to a number of key international agencies involved in one way or another with the mapping of food insecurity and poverty IAWG-FIVIMS Members (November 1998).
For more information on other poverty mapping initiatives click here.