The fisheries sector is a source of employment and income for more than 43 million fishers and fish farmers in the world, and the great majority of these live in developing countries, principally in Asia....

Sixty years after the first affirmation of the right to food, much remains to be done to make this a reality. In 2006, FAO’s State of Food Insecurity in the World report estimated the number...

The concept of resilience has recently been introduced into food security literature. It aims to measure households’ capability to absorb the negative effects of unpredictable shocks, as a legitimate component of vulnerability analysis. The definition...

The Tajikistan Household Budget Survey (HBS) has the particular characteristic of collecting expenditure and income data from the same households over a long period. The longitudinal survey design accounts for all variations, including seasonal effects,...