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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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Nexus approaches to global sustainable development
Jianguo Liu,Vanessa Hull,H. Charles J. Godfray,David Tilman,Peter H. Gleick,Holger Hoff,Holger Hoff,Claudia Pahl-Wostl,Zhenci Xu,Min Gon Chung,Jing Sun,Shuxin Li +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the use of nexus approaches to sustainable development challenges is presented, with a focus on food, water, and energy, and a systematic procedure and future directions.
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Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between women empowerment in agriculture, measured using the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and per capita calorie availability, dietary diversity, and adult body mass index (BMI).
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Reducing Child Undernutrition: Past Drivers and Priorities for the Post-MDG Era
Lisa C. Smith,Lawrence Haddad +1 more
TL;DR: Data from 1970 to 2012 for 116 countries is used, finding that safe water access, sanitation, women’s education, gender equality, and the quantity and quality of food available in countries have been key drivers of past reductions in stunting.
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Measuring the Food Access Dimension of Food Security A Critical Review and Mapping of Indicators
TL;DR: Clarity is brought in the assessment of the food access dimension of food security at the household and individual level by recommending the use of experience-based indicators, HDDS, or FCS to assess household access to energy.
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Drivers of household food availability in sub-Saharan Africa based on big data from small farms
Romain Frelat,Romain Frelat,Santiago Lopez-Ridaura,Ken E. Giller,Mario Herrero,Sabine Douxchamps,Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt,Olaf Erenstein,Ben Henderson,Menale Kassie,Birthe K. Paul,Cyrille Rigolot,Randall S. Ritzema,Daniel Rodriguez,Piet J.A. van Asten,Mark T. van Wijk +15 more
TL;DR: There is a strong need for multisectoral policy harmonization and incentives and improved interconnectedness of people to urban centers and diversification of employment sources rather than a singular focus on agricultural development of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Validating operational food insecurity indicators against a dynamic benchmark : evidence from Mali
TL;DR: An explicitly forward-looking indicator of food insecurity that takes into account both current Dietary inadequacy and vulnerability to dietary inadequacy in the future is developed, and application to data from northern Mali shows that neglecting the future dimension of food insecureness causes serious underestimation of food security.
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Measuring Food Security Using Respondents’ Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare information on self-perceived food consumption adequacy from the subjective modules of household surveys with standard quantitative indicators, namely calorie consumption, dietary diversity and anthropometry, and conclude that subjective food adequacy indicators may provide insight on the vulnerability dimension of food insecurity, they are too blunt an indicator for food insecurity targeting.
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Validating operational food insecurity indicators against a dynamic benchmark : evidence from Mali
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an explicitly forward-looking indicator of food insecurity that takes into account both current dietary inadequacy and vulnerability to nutritional inadequacy in the future and evaluated the performance of three readily available alternative indicators: an agricultural production index, a dietary diversity index, and a coping strategy index.