The Right to Food Guidelines are intended to provide practical guidance and advice to states in establishing priorities and in implementing ways to promote, protect and fulfil the right to adequate food in their own countries. These volumes are part of a series of referenceguides that the Right to Food Unit has prepared. They aim to be highly practical and to provide the most current and relevant methodological and operational information related to monitoring the right to adequate food. No recipes are presented but instead, methodological options are explained and discussed. Information regarding specific methods are summarised, and references to easily accessed sources of technical and methodological documentation are provided. In most cases, the methods included are already being applied in more general monitoring of food security, nutrition and poverty reduction.