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

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 …

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

Household food insecurity is a serious public health concern in high-income countries.
Canada and the USA regularly monitor household food insecurity, while in other countries …

Introduction This study sought to determine the association of individual-level food insecurity
(FI) with mental health status across all global regions. Methods Cross-sectional data were …

This paper reviews available cross-disciplinary evidence on how culture affects food
security. We discuss the impact of culture on all four dimensions (availability, access and …

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 security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic
access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food …

Food insecurity, which affects> 1 billion people worldwide, is inextricably linked to the HIV
epidemic. We present a conceptual framework of the multiple pathways through which food …