On March 1-2 APRC’s Senior Researcher Salome Gelashvili attended a regional learning workshop on Food Security and Nutrition organized by OXFAM in Dilijan, Armenia. The overall objective of the workshop was to improve the food security and nutrition policies in the South Caucasus region.

Salome presented findings of the APRC study “Assessing Food Security Data Relevance and Collection Mechanisms in the South Caucasus”. The goal of the study was to map the best international practices of food security data collection mechanisms and compare them to the existing data collection mechanisms in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The study identifies major gaps in data and develops specific recommendations for each country.

 The Dilijan workshop included extensive group discussions seeking to prioritize policy recommendations for advocacy purposes in the respective countries.