What Are We Assessing When We Measure Food Security? A Compendium and Review of Current Metrics
TL;DR: A review of the current landscape of measurement tools available for assessing food security can be found in this paper, where the authors present a compendium and review of food security assessment tools in which they review issues of terminology, measurement, and validation.
About: This article is published in Advances in Nutrition.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 592 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food security.
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