The primary objective of this study is to identify ways to increase the value of existing food security information systems in order to better meet the needs of the decision‐makers and decision‐making processes in Myanmar....

This document provides operational guidance for the collection and tabulation of the Household Hunger Scale (HHS)—a new, simple indicator to measure household hunger in food insecure areas. The HHS is different from other household food...

A substantial portion of the world's people have not made adequate progress toward overcoming hunger or achieving sustainable livelihoods. The classic approach to addressing chronic food insecurity has been a strategy of agricultural development, supplemented...

Monotonous diets based mainly on energy dense, but micronutrient poor starchy staples are common in food insecure areas and contribute to the burden of malnutrition, particularly inadequate micronutrient intake. Food-based strategies have been recommended as...

The way a household copes with and withstands economic shocks depends on the options available, in terms of capabilities, assets (including both material and social resources) and activities. A livelihood strategy is the way those...

The Socio-Economic and Food Security (SEFSec) survey is part of a broader monitoring system in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) to be institutionalized within the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). The purpose of the...

This paper examines the relationship between migration and child growth in the rural highlands of Guatemala, a region with substantial international migration outflows, significant remittance inflows, and some of the highest rates of child undernutrition...

This report presents the findings of an International Data Management and GIS Consultant mission carried out to Lao PDR from 4 September to 18 September 2010, under the EC-FAO Food Security Programme on "Linking Information...

While legislative protection is needed to ensure the implementation of the right to food at the national level, it is only one of a number of necessary measures. This study reviews legal protection at the...

Since the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security (Right to Food Guidelines) by FAO Council in 2004, a...