Please link any working papers, articles, or website that may be relevant. I am interested in understanding the indicators that have been proposed (even if they have not been adopted by international organizations).
Some years back there has been quite some debate around the country-level assessments provided by FAO. Thisdebate has been surveyed by [Gabbert, S & Weikard, HP (2001) How Widespread is Undernourishment? A Critique of Measurement Methods and New Empirical Results. Food Policy 26, 209-228.]
There is an easy method to construct country food deficiency measures from Engel curves, see [Gabbert, S & Weikard, HP (2005) The Link between Poverty and Undernourishment: Uncovering a Methodological Flaw. Review of Agricultural Economics 27, 150-155.] Accounting for the insecurity aspect of "food security" is discussed in [Weikard, HP & Gabbert, S (2010) Measurement of Food Insecurity: How to Account for Risk. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition 5, 254-273.You will find further references and discussions in these papers.
Many thanks Hans-Peter. Very interesting starting point I was not aware of.
I am also concerned about composite indicators, scorecards approach, etc.
I am aware of the Global Food Security Index (http://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/), and curious to learn more about other similar approaches.
Thanks again.
Many thanks for you references, Aria.
Are you aware if any of the the two reports you have mentioned has been published as journal article?
Malthusian economic theory will be good reference and you also read this articles:http://ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol_3_No_9_May_2012/29.pdf
Dear Fabio,
Please have a look at these publication:
1. https://crawford.anu.edu.au/acde/publications/.../wp_econ_2011_04.pdf
2. www.cgdev.org/files/2740_file_WP_48_Food_security_in_Indonesia.pdf
Kind regards
Thanks Sunday, and Yudi. Interesting references.
Is anyone aware of other methodological pubblications (e.g. those suggested by prof. Weikard) ?
In particular understanding how to "cloppase" indicators into a single (or few) composite indexes (same approach as the gloobal food security inex kindly suggested by Dr. Tsam).
Maybe of interest:
http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/challenges-counting-world-s-hungry
You may use some ideas from the following reference:
Rahman S and Akter S 2012. Determinants of Livelihood Security in Poor Settlements in Bangladesh, Asian Profile, Vol 40 No. 6, , pp 450-566.
Dear Fabio
Interesting question. We at Wageningen UR are coordinating a large EU funded research project on Food security (www.foodsecure.eu). As part of this, my colleagues from ZEF and IFPRI wrote an overview paper on indicators. This might be useful for you:
"Food and Nutrition Security Indicators: A Review"
FOODSECURE working paper no. 5 (http://www.foodsecure.eu/PublicationDetail.aspx?id=13)
Anybody working on the impact of global food prices on the food and nutrition consumption?
Many thanks Gerdien. The reference you have provided is extremely interesting.
Dear Fabio, Pasquale De Muro and I some years ago proposed a multidimensional food security indicator and calculated it for the rural areas of several developing countries. Here is the reference Burchi, F. and De Muro, P. (2007): "Education for Rural People and Food Security: A Cross Country Analysis", FAO, Rome. URL: http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1434e/a1434e00.htm
More recently Elisabetta Aurino has worked extensively on these indicators. The 2013 FAO State of Food Insecurity has heavily drawn on her work.
Francesco, many thanks for your references. Very interesting!
You may also check the following report:
UNDP, Africa Human Development Report 2012, New York, 2012.
You will find it possibly at:
www.undp.org/africa or at
www.afhdr.org
The report has extensive references.
I think you should search documents published by FAO. There are plenty of documents listing the food security indicators at the country level.
Tugrul
It may be interesting to some of you a recent article I have published on the issue:
On the composite indicators for food security: decisions matter!
Published in Food Reviews International.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZR2Cv9SVPDU9Undj4VZA/full#.VGEL9nXf95Q
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