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 …

The United Nations define food security as" People having at all times, physical, social and
economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and …

Objective: To assess the internal validity of a multiple-item measure of household food
security in Brazil using statistical methods based on the single-parameter logistic (Rasch) …

Food insecurity has been documented in countries throughout the range of national
incomes. Most Latin American countries, including Brazil, fall in the middle of this range …

Hunger and food insecurity numbers were already increasing worldwide before the COVID-
19 pandemic, but their numbers sharply increased in 2020 and continued to increase in …

Until recently, Brazil did not have a national instrument with which to assess household food
insecurity (FI). The objectives of this study were as follows: 1) to describe the process of …

O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a tendência e fatores associados à insegurança
alimentar no Brasil nos anos de 2004, 2009 e 2013, utilizando microdados da Pesquisa …

OBJECTIVE: To review and refine Brazilian Household Food Insecurity Measurement Scale
structure. METHODS: The study analyzed the impact of removing the item" adult lost weight" …

The measurement of food insecurity is essential to monitor the prevalence, risk factors,
consequences and effects of food insecurity and the interventions and policies implemented …

ObjectiveTo conduct a systematic review aimed at identifying and characterizing the
experience-based household food security scales and to synthesize their psychometric …