In this paper, we review existing food and nutrition security indicators, discuss some of their
advantages and disadvantages, and finally classify them and describe their relationships …

Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture have been recognized as important opportunities to
enhance household food security in developing countries. While interventions aiming at …

The paper explores post-modern currents in food security. It identifies three main shifts in
thinking about food security since the World Food Conference of 1974: from the global and …

In this article, we draw out a set of axioms for food security measurement that follow directly
from the internationally agreed 1996 FAO definition. Building on recent work on the theory …

Many observers have conceptualised the link between rural poverty and environment as a
'downward spiral'with population growth and economic marginalisation leading to …

Sažetak Even though there is long-held belief that urban populations are better off, or even
favoured than rural populations, the recent food and financial crises have highlighted the …

Abstract At the 1996 World Food Summit, 186 countries made a commitment to reduce the
number of chronically undernourished people by half by 2015. In order to formulate effective …

Risk and vulnerability have been rediscovered as key features of rural livelihoods and
poverty, and are currently a focus of policy attention. The poor themselves try to manage …

Ethiopia's agriculture is predominantly rainfed and hence any irregularity in weather
conditions has adverse welfare implications. Using panel data, this paper analyzes the effect …

Practitioners and advocates of community food security (CFS) envision food systems that are
decentralized, environmentally-sound over a long time-frame, supportive of collective rather …