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Introduces food security, including the components of food security, causes for the deterioration of food security in humanitarian emergencies and nutritional deficiencies in humanitarian settings. Provides an overview of food and nutrition standards, nutrition surveys and response programming, including organizations involved in nutrition and food assistance and common programmatic interventions and policies used in response to food crises. Topics covered include food assistance strategies, including in-kind assistance, cash transfers and livelihoods programming, as well as preventative and curative nutrition programs. Focuses on recent and past food and nutrition crises to illustrate important concepts and utilizes a field-based approach to guide discussions and consider applications of concepts to real life humanitarian crises.