Measurement is critical for assessing and monitoring food security. Yet, it is difficult to
comprehend which food security dimensions, components, and levels the numerous …

This document aims to help users choose and interpret food security and nutrition indicators
to guide a wide variety of policies and programmes around the world. The criteria used for …

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 …

Background: With food security now a top priority for many governments and for the global
development community, there is heightened awareness of the need to improve our …

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

The objective of this study is to validate the World Food Programme's (WFP) method of
establishing the prevalence of food insecurity. WFP's method has two parts:(1) the …

Measuring household food insecurity represents a challenge due to the complexity and wide
array of factors associated with this phenomenon. For over one decade, researchers and …

Food security is again at the center of the international development discourse, both as a
means to facilitate achievement of health goals and as an end in itself (Hall et al. 2011; …

ABSTRACT The United States Public Law 480 Title II food aid program is the largest US
government program directed at reducing hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity in the …