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Towards better measurement of household food security: Harmonizing indicators and the role of household surveys
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In this article, the authors identify the elements of a strategy, built around a combination of short-term fixes and long-term methodological advancements, to reverse the existing trends of poor coordination and slow methodological innovation in food security measurement and monitoring.About:
This article is published in Global Food Security.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 338 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food security & Dashboard (business).read more
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Impacts of biofuel crop production in southern Africa: Land use change, ecosystem services, poverty alleviation and food security
Francis X. Johnson,Anne Nyambane +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt an ecosystem services lens in assessing the local impacts of biofuel crop production, which can be used to identify best practices and support decision-making and policy design in the production of bio fuel crops.
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Water fetching burden: a qualitative study to examine how it differs by gender among rural households in the west region of Cameroon.
TL;DR: It was found that the household structure was key component in each family member's degree of involvement in water fetching and management and a significant gender gap was found among adults with fewer men than women experiencing coping strategies-related to water scarcity.
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Logit models for household food insecurity classification
Abraham Yeyo Owino,Leonard K. Atuhaire,Ronald Wesonga,Fabian Nabugoomu,Elijah S.K. Muwanga-Zaake +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the quantitative variables and applied exploratory factor analysis to identify which of them significantly influence household food insecurity and developed logit models using the variables identified.
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Status and drivers of food insecurity and adaptation responses under a changing climate among smallholder farmers households in Bagmati Province, Nepal
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the prevalence, cause and response to food insecurity and assessed how food security varies with respect to the regional variation, and explored the role of changing climatic conditions in creating such adversities.
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The Household Food Security Implications of Disrupted Access to Basic Services in Five Cities in the Global South
TL;DR: In this article , a more multidimensional measure of food security is proposed to test whether these results are observable outside Southern Africa, and with a method for building an index of urban household food access, utilization and stability.
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Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide: Version 3
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Measuring Food Insecurity
TL;DR: This work states that estimated prevalence rates and patterns remain tenuous because measuring food security, an elusive concept, remains difficult.
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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Sabina Alkire,Maria Emma Santos +1 more
TL;DR: The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) as discussed by the authors is the first multidimensional poverty index for 104 developing countries and is composed of ten indicators corresponding to the same three dimensions as the Human Development Index: Education, Health and Standard of Living.
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Operationalizing Dietary Diversity: A Review of Measurement Issues and Research Priorities
TL;DR: Evidence from a multicountry analysis suggests that household-level DD diversity is strongly associated with household per capita income and energy availability, suggesting that DD could be a useful indicator of food security.