The appropriate measurement of food security is critical for targeting food and economic aid;
supporting early famine warning and global monitoring systems; evaluating nutrition, health …

A variety of indicators are currently used for food security analysis, monitoring, and
programming, and most agencies have their preferred variant on methods of data collection …

Until recently there was lacking a common food security measure and the necessary data to
study the individual-level determinants of food insecurity around the world. In 2014, the Food …

The challenge of measuring food security became increasingly thorny during the 1990s,
when the number of conceptual elements proliferated in widely accepted definitions. There …

Food insecurity is a daily reality for hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Although its most extreme manifestations are often obvious, many other households facing …

This paper hypothesizes that there is a common “core” to the household food insecurity
experience that goes beyond insufficient food quantity and that transcends culture. The …

The complexity of the operational concept and definition of food insecurity has complicated
the study of the 'food insecure'and efforts to determine clear policy directions. Previous …

This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years,
assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political …

Several decades of research on 'urban agriculture'have led to markedly different
conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African …

To respond to climate impact, poor agricultural households in less developed regions rely
on different types of assets that define their overall adaptive capacity (AC). However not all …