Measuring food insecurity: the frequency and severity of coping strategies
Defining and interpreting food security, and measuring it in reliable, valid and cost-effective ways, have proven to be stubborn problems facing researchers and programs intended to monitor food security risks. This paper briefly reviews the conceptual and methodological literature on food insecurit...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1995
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| author | Maxwell, Daniel G. |
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| description | Defining and interpreting food security, and measuring it in reliable, valid and cost-effective ways, have proven to be stubborn problems facing researchers and programs intended to monitor food security risks. This paper briefly reviews the conceptual and methodological literature on food insecurity measurement, describes a particular method for distinguishing and measuring short-term food insecurity at the household level, and discusses ways of generalizing the method. The method developed enumerates the frequency and severity of strategies relied on by urban households when faced with a short-term insufficiency of food. This method goes beyond more commonly-used measures of caloric consumption to incorporate vulnerability elements of food insecurity as well as the deliberate actions of household decisionmakers when faced with food insufficiency. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1570692025-11-06T06:28:39Z Measuring food insecurity: the frequency and severity of coping strategies Maxwell, Daniel G. food security research methodology urban planning assessment targeting surveys Defining and interpreting food security, and measuring it in reliable, valid and cost-effective ways, have proven to be stubborn problems facing researchers and programs intended to monitor food security risks. This paper briefly reviews the conceptual and methodological literature on food insecurity measurement, describes a particular method for distinguishing and measuring short-term food insecurity at the household level, and discusses ways of generalizing the method. The method developed enumerates the frequency and severity of strategies relied on by urban households when faced with a short-term insufficiency of food. This method goes beyond more commonly-used measures of caloric consumption to incorporate vulnerability elements of food insecurity as well as the deliberate actions of household decisionmakers when faced with food insufficiency. 1995 2024-10-24T12:47:07Z 2024-10-24T12:47:07Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157069 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Maxwell, Daniel G. 1995. Measuring food insecurity: the frequency and severity of coping strategies. FCND Discussion Paper 8. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157069 |
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| title | Measuring food insecurity: the frequency and severity of coping strategies |
| title_full | Measuring food insecurity: the frequency and severity of coping strategies |
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| title_short | Measuring food insecurity: the frequency and severity of coping strategies |
| title_sort | measuring food insecurity the frequency and severity of coping strategies |
| topic | food security research methodology urban planning assessment targeting surveys |
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