From food availability to nutritional capabilities: Advancing food security analysis
By F. Burchi, P. D. Muro. 2016
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This paper has a threefold objective. First, it provides a comprehensive review of different approaches to analysing food security. Second, it highlights the added value provided by the capability approach and the human development paradigm. Third, it proposes a methodology to assess food security through this approach. Our proposal entails three basic steps: (1) analysis of food entitlements; (2) analysis of nutritional capabilities and (3) analysis of the capability to be food secure. In this way, we can move beyond income, entitlement or livelihood related frameworks, and identify the root causes of food insecurity. Food insecurity can be the result of a lack of education, health or other basic capabilities that constitute people’s wellbeing. This, therefore, allows situating the study within the broader area of wellbeing and development.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Nutrition and Dietetics, Sociology and Political Science
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- Making Conventional Agriculture Environmentally Friendly: Moving beyond the Glorification of Organic Agriculture and the Demonization of Conventional Agriculture (2018, background): “Many commentators have made the point that, in theory, enough food is already grown on the planet to adequately feed more people than presently live on earth [32,33].”
- The Role of Agriculture in Ensuring Food Security in Developing Countries: Considerations in the Context of the Problem of Sustainable Food Production (2020, background): “It should be noted here that the set of indicators suggested in the research is a simple, but relatively rarely made attempt to integrate five main approaches to the analysis of food security [76].”