FIVIMS AN INTER-AGENCY INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE INFORMATION AND MAPPING SYSTEMS ON FOOD INSECURITY AND VULNERABILITY Proceedings Measurement and Assessment of Food Deprivation and Undernutrition International Scientific Symposium Rome, 26-28 June 2002 Symposium Convened by the Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division
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Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

International Scientific Symposium on Measurement and Assessment of Food Deprivation and Undernutrition: executive summary

Part I: Opening address

Part II: Methods for the measurement of food deprivation and undernutrition

Keynote Paper: FAO methodology for estimating the prevalence of undernourishment

Appendix A - On the use of the bivariate distribution of intake and requirement in estimating the prevalence of undernourishment
Appendix B - Estimation of the CV of energy requirement
Appendix C - Available data on changes in the inequality of income distribution
Appendix D - Illustration of the FAO methodology as applied to a hypothetical country
Discussion opener - FAO method
Discussion opener - FAO method
Discussion group report - FAO method

Keynote Paper: The use of household expenditure surveys for the assessment of food insecurity

Appendix A - Examples of uses of the data
Appendix B - Methods of estimating global and regional food energy deficiency prevalences when data are not available for all countries
Appendix C - Energy requirements by age and sex for light and moderate activity levels
Discussion opener - household expenditure survey methods
Discussion opener - household expenditure survey methods
Discussion group report - household expenditure survey methods

Keynote Paper: Individual food intake survey methods

Discussion opener - individual food intake survey methods
Discussion opener - individual food intake survey methods
Discussion group report - individual food intake surveys methods

Keynote Paper: Measures of nutritional status from anthropometric survey data

Discussion opener - anthropometric survey methods
Discussion opener - anthropometric survey methods
Discussion group report - anthropometric survey methods

Keynote Paper: Qualitative measures of food insecurity and hunger

Appendix A - Eighteen-Question, Core Food Security Module (all questions answered often true, sometimes true, never true, don't know/refused)
Appendix B - Six-item, short form of the 12-month Food Security Scale (all questions are answered often, sometimes or never)
Discussion opener - qualitative measures of food insecurity and hunger
Discussion opener - qualitative measures of food insecurity and hunger
Discussion groups report - qualitative measures of food insecurity and hunger

Keynote paper: Measuring hunger and malnutrition

Discussion paper on “Measuring hunger and malnutrition” by J.B. Mason

Part III: Parallel contributed papers sessions

1. Statistical issues related to improving estimates of distributions for any of the five methods

Fallacies in - and ways of improving - the FAO methodology for estimating prevalence of undernutrition
Risk-adjusted measures of undernourishment for Sub-Saharan African countries
Estimating undernourishment with household expenditure surveys: a comparison of methods using data from three Sub-Saharan African countries
On reliability of estimates of inequality in distributions derived from sample survey data
The effect of sampling design on the reliability of estimates of the variance of distributions derived from household survey data: a simulation study

2. Innovative methods to measure food security

Measuring access to food in developing countries: the case of Latin America
Prediction of childhood anthropometric parameters based on a poverty index: an empirical statistical method using demographic and health survey data
Documenting traditional food systems of indigenous peoples: process and methods with international case studies
Traditional food patterns and dietary intake of Bhil tribes in the Dang district of Gujarat, western India
The relevance of a spatial and integrated analysis of underlying causes of malnutrition

3. Food security information systems using combined methods

An international Nutrition Index: concept and analyses of food insecurity and undernutrition at country levels
Nutrition surveillance to monitor nutrition and food security: indicators, interpretations and action
The use of household budget survey data for assessing food disparities within and between populations: case studies of 13 European countries
Using anthropometric data: case study of a nutrition management information system in Ethiopia

4. Food security measurement: discrepancies and definitions

Food energy defi ciency, child malnutrition and low body mass index (BMI) in adults: differences and anomalies between Africa and Asia
Malnourished and surviving in South Asia, better nourished and dying young in Africa: what can explain this puzzle?
Measuring national food security: prevalence of undernutrition and an index of national food security
Nutritional status assessment methodology
Reducing hunger or malnutrition? The case of Bangladesh

5. Experiences in using qualitative methods for measuring food security

Comparing household survey-based measures of food insecurity across countries: case studies in India, Uganda and Bangladesh
Challenges in defining direct measures of hunger and food insecurity in Bangladesh: findings from ongoing fieldwork
Household economy approaches in subnational and national decision-making
Development and validation of a questionnaire-based tool to measure rural household food insecurity in Burkina Faso
Dietary diversity as a food security indicator

Part IV: Summary of the draft fi ndings of the Joint FAO/WHO/UNU Expert Consultation on human energy requirements

Part V: Dinner talk

Part VI: Users’ perspectives

1. National level

Kenya
India
Colombia
World Food Programme
UNICEF
Discussion summary: national users

2. International level

A perspective on the Millennium Development Goals
The World Bank
UK Department for International Development
United States Agency for International Development
Discussion summary: international users

Part VII: Conclusions

Keynote speaker panel
Lessons learned
Appendices

Symposium Programme
Scientific Advisory Committee
Local Organizing Committee
List of Participants
Glossary