Food Policy Analysis Tools

This section presents information-and decision-support tools to strengthen the ability of policymakers, food policy experts, and researchers to respond quickly to dynamic developments in the world food system. Below, you will find these tools organized into categories based on their distinctive features and applications. 

A comprehensive list of the entire set of tools is available at the page below.

Cost of a Healthy Diet Dashboard

The dashboard visualizes global nutritious-diet affordability, trends, food-group costs, and poverty links, helping policymakers assess vulnerabilities and design informed interventions.

Food Security and Nutrition Indicators Dashboard

The dashboard visualizes global food security and nutrition trends, enabling comparison of key indicators through interactive maps and charts for informed policy analysis.

Vulnerability to Global Market Shocks V.2: Price Shocks to Major Staple Foods

The FSP’s Vulnerability to Global Market Shocks V.2: Price Shocks to Major Staple Foods provides new metrics quantifying country-level vulnerability to changes in international prices for major staple crops.

Fertilizer Market Dashboard

The dashboard tracks global fertilizer market trends, price drivers, trade, and production, helping users monitor risks and understand impacts on food systems.

Food and Fertilizer Export Restrictions Tracker

The tracker monitors global food and fertilizer export restrictions, showing their impacts on imported calories and comparing current trends to past crises.

Food Security Simulator

The tool simulates how price or income changes affect food consumption and diet quality, providing detailed, survey-based results by income group and area.

Vulnerability to Global Market Shocks V.1: Wheat and Fertilizer Price Shocks Caused by Ukraine Crisis

This tool is designed to identify the exposure (vulnerability) of countries to shocks in global markets that may cause supply shortages or price surges in staple foods and key agricultural inputs (like fertilizers) which could erode food security in countries if they are highly dependent on imports of such commodities and/or lack the economic capacity to cushion their vulnerable population against the impacts of those shocks.

Damaged Agricultural Lands in the Gaza Strip

The ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip continues to devastate agricultural livelihoods and food production, with satellite assessments showing extensive cropland damage.

Production and Stocks Monitoring System

The dashboard tracks stock-to-use ratios, highlighting market tightness and vulnerability to shocks by comparing current stock levels with historical averages.

Excessive Food Price Volatility Early Warning System

The system monitors excessive volatility in food and fertilizer prices, identifying abnormal fluctuations to provide early warnings that support timely food-security responses.

Food Price Monitor

The dashboard tracks international and domestic food prices and key determinants, enabling users to monitor trends, volatility, and drivers of price changes.

Early Warning Hub

The Early Warning Hub consolidates alerts and data from multiple systems, providing timely information to help decision makers anticipate and address food crises.

Food Price Shocks Tool

The Food Security Portal's Price Shocks Tool provides an interactive way to explore the impact of price changes on poverty. When you set hypothetical price shock(s) using the tool, net impacts of selected price changes are generated per household and the impact on poverty is automatically calculated accordingly.

Control Panel for Risk Monitoring

The control panel for real-time monitoring of risk factors is an innovative tool that brings together information on various drivers of food crises, including conflict and climate-related shocks.

Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste

The Food Loss and Waste database is the largest online collection of data on both food loss and food waste and causes reported throughout the literature. The database contains data and information from openly accessible reports and studies measuring food loss and waste across food products, stages of the value chain, and geographical areas.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Population Tracking Tool

The IPC Population Tracking Tool is a new online platform that gives the public access to population data from more than 30 different countries. It allows users to download resource data for offline IPC analyses from the past three years. All national population figures are based on official country population estimates. IPC estimates are those published in country IPC reports.