Presentation at the mountain research initiative's (MRI) food security in mountains workshop, held in Aeschi, Switzerland March 22-25. Focuses on food security in the Andes, with emphasis on the impacts of recent food price rises.

1. Poverty and food security in the Andes Glenn Hyman, Alex Marin, Chereen Ball Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical Cali, Colombia

3. Historical context and current status

4. Afro-Colombians as a Percentage of total population Indigenous Colombians as a Percentage of total population Percent of Households with Unmet basic needs

5. Ecuador: concentration of malnutrition and extreme poverty in the Andes

6. Desnutrición en Perú

8. Pobreza relativa

11. Larrea, C. 2005. Desnutricion, etnicidad y pobreza en el Ecuador y el area Andina. FLACSO. Ecuador

12. ECUADOR Courtesy of Andrew Farrow

13. Key drivers

14. Capital natural

15. Capital físico

16. Capital Financiero Bolivia

17. Capital humano

18. Food security and natural hazards

19. Regression of stunting and food consumption Staples Stunting Fruits/veg Stunting Z

21. Impact of the recent crisis

22. Source: http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/ai484e/ai484e06.htm Price trends in Bolivia: 2007-2009

23. Ambato

24. % de la población con necesidades básicas insatisfechas En Perú, pobreza es mayor en los distritos aguas arribas de las cuencas, que también muestran altas tasas de desnutrición Perú desnutrición N Promedio desnutrición Aguas arriba 59 .40 Aguas abajo 19 .22

32. Food insecure households a greater crop diversity Ambato Jequetepeque

33. Ambato Jequetepeque Little difference between food security and insecure households with respect to livestock diversity

34. Ambato Jequetepeque Food insecure households have slightly larger household size

35. Ambato Jequetepeque Remittances appear to make no difference

36. Ambato Jequetepeque Remittances appear to make no difference

37. Ambato Jequetepeque Irrigation appears to make little difference

38. Ambato Jequetepeque Whether family members work outside of the household appears to make little difference

39. Ambato Jequetepeque In Ambato, food secure households own more cattle. In Jequetepeque, cattle ownership makes little difference.

40. Ambato Jequetepeque Soil fertility shows little relation to food security

41. Ambato Jequetepeque Market orientation and food security up here unrelated

42. Poverty exit pathways