Cork University Business School was delighted to welcome Dr. Jannie Armstrong of the UN IPC Global Support Unit to UCC this week where he delivered a Food Security Workshop to our MSc Food Security Policy and Management students. The workshop was based around the Iintegrated Phase Classification's (IPC) which determines whether or not famine or other emergency levels of hunger are declared in a particular locality.
Dr. Jannie Armstrong is the IPC’s Global Support Unit’s Learning Systems Developer and has spent the past week at CUBS teaching an intensive workshop on the IPC’s approach to analysing acute food insecurity in some of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. The training on acute food security is at Level 1 of the IPC accreditation for food security professionals.
The workshop brought together 22 participants from University College Cork, NUI Galway, alongside colleagues from Goal, Trocaire, and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine. Dr. Armstrong also spoke at the UCC Centre for Global Studies on Tuesday 18th April.
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‘It’s been a remarkable few days at UCC’ said Dr. Armstrong ‘It’s been terrific to see just how much the group have gotten into this, and how much they’ve gotten out of it- analysing food security in data poor, emergency environments is no easy task, but this group have risen to the challenge.’
“Its important that more food security professionals are trained to meet the need for expanding the coverage and frequency of consensus-based food insecurity analyses around the world”.
Dr Armstrong works as the Integrated Phase Classification's Learning Systems Expert Developer, in which capacity he oversees the academic liaison portfolio, making sure that the IPC stays abreast of developments in food security and nutrition research from leading academic institutions around the world. He co-develops all IPC training materials for both online and face to face trainings, and is a member of the Technical Development Team.
He holds a PhD in food policy from the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London. Over the past 25 years, he has consulted and written extensively on food security across Asia, Africa and Europe for FAO, WFP and others. In that time, he has lived and worked in Kenya, the African Great Lakes (DRC, Burundi and Rwanda), Serbia, Mongolia, Laos, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Jannie holds an enduring research interest in food security policy in the Global South, and is currently based in Harare, Zimbabwe. For more information on IPC clink this link.