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Title:Choice of Indicators for Food Security and Nutrition Monitoring
Authors:Haddad, LawrenceISNI
Kennedy, EileenISNI
Sullivan, Joan
Year:1994
Periodical:Food Policy
Volume:19
Issue:3
Period:June
Pages:329-343
Language:English
Geographic terms:Ghana
Africa
Subjects:food policy
Development and Technology
Health and Nutrition
External link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(94)90079-5
Abstract:Traditional indicators of food and nutrition security such as calorie adequacy and anthropometric indicators have been found difficult to incorporate into ongoing monitoring and evaluation systems. This paper develops a conceptual framework to identify and evaluate alternative indicators of food and nutrition security and makes several suggestions for the choice of indicators for food security and nutrition monitoring in Africa. It focuses on the development of nutrition security indicators at the preschooler level. Four different data sets (from the Philippines, Brazil, Ghana and Mexico) are analysed. The central message of the empirical analysis is that relatively simple indicators perform well in locating the food and nutrition insecure. Indicators such as number of unique foods consumed, region, dependency ratio, household size, rooms per capita, incidence of illness, vaccination status, age at weaning, drinking water and sanitation facilities are able, either singly or in combination, to identify households and preschoolers at risk. Bibliogr., notes, sum.
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