Measuring food insecurity: Can an indicator based on localized coping behaviors be used to compare across contexts?

By D. Maxwell, R. Caldwell, M. Langworthy. 2008

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Using panel data to estimate the effect of rainfall shocks on smallholders food security and vulnerability in rural Ethiopia (2011, methodology): “Maxwell et al. (2008) describe the frequently available and utilized indicators which potentially measure food security as the following: nutritional status, actual food consumption at the household level by a 24-h recall, coping strategies index, as well as proxy indicators such as calorie intake,”
Impact of tissue culture banana technology on farm household income and food security in Kenya (2014, background): “There are also studies that try to measure food insecurity through data on household coping strategies (Maxwell et al., 1999; Maxwell et al., 2008).”
Determinants of Household Food Security in Rural Ethiopia: An Empirical Analysis (2014, background): “Although there has been a lot of progress made in terms of deriving an appropriate measure/indicator of food security, there is still a long way to go to find broadly applicable measures of food security (Maxwell et al. 2008).”