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 …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Multiple
biophysical, political, and socioeconomic stresses interact to increase the region's …

In recent years, global hunger has begun to rise, returning to levels from a decade ago.
Climate change is a key driver behind these recent rises and is one of the leading causes of …

ObjectiveThe association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity in rural
smallholder households was recently analysed. Most existing studies build on household …

Globally, more than 800 million people are undernourished while> 2 billion people have
one or more chronic micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs). More than 6% of global mortality …

Nearly half of the malnourished population of the world lives in South Asia, and agriculture is
the main source of livelihood of the people in this region. Many review exercises have …

While food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there
persists significant dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the …

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

Oil palm is one of the most rapidly expanding crops throughout the humid tropics. In
Indonesia, the expansion is largely driven by smallholder farmers. While recent research …

Renewed emphasis on programs and policies aimed at enhancing food security has
intensified the search for accurate, rapid, and consistent indicators. Measures of food …