Subject(s): Food supply. -- Plight and power of rural manager - what rural manager needs to know about food security -- Assessing food security in Locality : local food security and nutrition, carrying out a local food security and nutrition audit, local food security strategy -- Nutrition, health and disease : Nutrition priorities in rural areas, finding out whether there is a nutrition problem in the area, designing programs to improve nutrition -- Food supplies and prices : State and market, techniques for finding out how well local food markets work -- Creating incomes and employment : Changing rural employment problems, role of government and NGOs, productive employment for poor -- Rural water management problem, key food security issues involving water -- Livestock sector during drought, food security -- Finance for local food security : Effects on poor, improving local financial system for poor, improving project funding -- Government- NGO cooperation : Working with local NGOs, strengths and weaknesses of national and foreign NGOs, NGOs and food security -- Preparedness for famine prevention : Basic for disaster preparedness, essential disaster preparedness measures, making local preparedness administration more effective under adverse circumstances