A survey module used to monitor the prevalence of household food insecurity and hunger in
the United States was developed by a broadly based collaborative project with leadership …

Research using experiential measures of householdlevel food security is now well into its
second decade. The current trajectory began with studies by private and academic …

The food security assessment used by the United State's Food Security/Hunger Survey
Module (US-FSSM) was used in five studies: these were in two urban and four rural areas in …

To produce national prevalence estimates for “food insecurity” and “food insecurity with
hunger,” the USDA uses a battery of 18 survey items about symptoms of food-related …

This study sought to describe the changes in the food security status in Brazil before and
during its most recent financial and political crisis, as well as to explore associations …

Over the last decade, new information has been developed and collected to measure the
extent of food insecurity and hunger in the United States. Common measurement of the …

An interdisciplinary conceptual framework of food security is presented that identifies
determinants at the macro-socioeconomic, regional-local, and household levels. Food …

RESUMO OBJETIVO: Propor versão curta da Escala Brasileira de Insegurança Alimentar.
Foram analisados dois estudos constituídos por amostra de 230 famílias de baixa renda, de …

O presente trabalho apresenta a experiência de grupos focais com participantes oriundos
de populações rurais do Estado de São Paulo, que possibilitou analisar e elucidar a …

Apresenta-se um marco conceitual interdisciplinar de segurança alimentar e nutricional no
qual identificam-se determinantes nos níveis macrossocioeconômico, regional-local e …