Measuring Food Insecurity

2010/02/11 by Christopher B. Barrett · 5 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · Nursing · Social Sciences · #Agriculture #Biology #Business #Child Nutrition and Water Access #Ecology #Economics #Environmental health #Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations #Food insecurity #Food security #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Medicine #Micronutrient #Natural resource economics

paper · doi:10.1126/science.1182768

openalex publication_date 2010/02/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Food security is a growing concern worldwide. More than 1 billion people are estimated to lack sufficient dietary energy availability, and at least twice that number suffer micronutrient deficiencies. Because indicators inform action, much current research focuses on improving food insecurity measurement. Yet estimated prevalence rates and patterns remain tenuous because measuring food security, an elusive concept, remains difficult.

Citations

• The economics of poverty traps and persistent poverty: An asset-based approach
• Measuring Household Food Insecurity: Why It's So Important and Yet So Difficult to Do
• Measuring food insecurity: the frequency and severity of “coping strategies”

Cited by

• Mortality, crime and access to basic needs before and after the Haiti earthquake: a random survey of Port-au-Prince households
• Climate Change and Food Systems
• Transferring diversity of goat grass to farmers’ fields through the development of synthetic hexaploid wheat
• Beyond a prescription: Applying a relational framework to the ‘Food is Medicine’ movement
• Food security [wikipedia]

Related

• From food availability to nutritional capabilities: Advancing food security analysis
• Food security as resilience: reconciling definition and measurement
• The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
• Releasing agriculture from the food security mandate
• The effectiveness of a short form of the Household Food Security Scale.