Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0

The CRiSTAL Food Security 2.0 tool is a decision-support system implemented via Microsoft Excel to analyze the resilience of community food systems against climate threats. It employs a holistic 'food system wheel' framework consisting of five dimensions: food utilization and consumption, access, availability, supporting resources and services, and supporting organizations and policies. The tool guides users through a six-module process: introduction, context analysis (community and climate), food system analysis, resilience analysis, selection of SMART indicators, and automatic report generation. It emphasizes the use of participatory rural appraisal methods, such as livelihood strategies, threat and resource mapping, and vulnerability matrices, to gather primary data from local communities, which is then triangulated with secondary scientific data. The tool aims to identify specific climate vulnerabilities and develop measurable indicators to monitor food system resilience over time.

• The tool's conceptual framework for food systems is based on a 'wheel' with five concentric rings: food utilization and consumption, food access, food availability, supporting resources and services, and supporting organizations and policies.
• Climate risk is defined as the interaction between climate threats (such as storms, floods, or droughts), exposure (presence of people and resources in prone regions), and vulnerability (determined by sensitivity and adaptive capacity).
• Resilience is analyzed through specific criteria for systems (flexibility, robustness, redundancy, modularity, diversity, and safe failures), agents (responsiveness, ingenuity, and learning capacity), and institutions (rights, decision-making processes, and access to information).
• The tool guides users to develop 'SMART' indicators—specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound—to monitor the evolution of food system resilience.
• The tool automatically generates five types of summary reports: a general report, a food systems report, a climate impacts report, a resilience analysis report, and a resilience indicators report.

APA

International Institute for Sustainable Development (2014). Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/cristal_food_security_manual_sp.pdf

Chicago

International Institute for Sustainable Development. Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0. 2014. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/cristal_food_security_manual_sp.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{internationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopment2014manual, author = {{International Institute for Sustainable Development}}, title = {{Manual del Usuario de la Herramienta CRiSTAL Seguridad Alimentaria 2.0}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2014}, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/cristal_food_security_manual_sp.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }