Food security: definition and measurement

By P. Pinstrup‐Andersen. Food Security, 2009

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Nutrition and Dietetics, Sociology and Political Science

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The effects of violent conflict on household resilience and food security: Evidence from the 2014 Gaza conflict (2019, methodology): “At the household level, the “ability to acquire the food needed by its members to be food secure” makes a household food secure (Pinstrup-Andersen, 2009).5 In fact food security changes over time - in the face of shocks and stressors such as conflict or violence - are linked to resilience; that is,…”
What determines gender inequality in household food security in Kenya? Application of exogenous switching treatment regression (2014, background): “Pinstrup-Andersen (2009) proposes that conditional on a set of assumptions about household behavior, total household income and food prices can be used to estimate the household food security.”
Chemical ecology in coupled human and natural systems: people, manioc, multitrophic interactions and global change (2010, background): “Food security encompasses both the availability and the nutritional quality of food (Pinstrup-Andersen 2009).”
Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, background): “In this spirit, the World Food Summit of 1996 moved analytic focus away from narrow measurements of food availability to questions about food access, initiating greater official consideration of food distribution and socioeconomic inequality (Sen, 1981; Devereux et al., 2008; Pinstrup-Andersen, 2009”
Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “The availability of food is considered necessary, but not sufficient for its access, and its access is necessary, but is not sufficient for its utilization (Webb et al. 2006; Pinstrup-Andersen 2009; Barrett 2010).”
Determinants of Household Food Security in Rural Ethiopia: An Empirical Analysis (2014, background): “However, availability alone doesn’t guarantee access and that if food security is to be a measure of household or individual welfare; it has to address the issue of access (Pinstrup-Andersen 2009).”
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “Hence the number of food-insecure people in the world has been reduced by about 20%, with the proportion almost halved in the last quarter-century, but at least 2 billion live with insufficient nutrients (Pinstrup-Andersen 2009) and about 2.”
Impact of metal silos on households’ maize storage, storage losses and food security: An application of a propensity score matching (2013, background): “Food security exists when all people have, at all times, access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences in order to lead an active and healthy life (Pinstrup-Andersen, 2009).”
Analysis of the spatial mismatch of grain production and farmland resources in China based on the potential crop rotation system. (2017, background): “Food security has in fact been a cause of great concern for very long time (Ferranti, 2016; Pinstrup-Andersen, 2009; Smyth t al., 2015; Zhou and Turvey, 2014).”
Impact of improved maize varieties on food security in Eastern Zambia: A doubly robust analysis (2018, neutral): “Occasional or transitory food security refers to a situation when a person suffers from a periodic decline in food consumption, while permanent or chronic food insecurity describes a long-term lack of access to sufficient food (Pinstrup-Andersen, 2009).”
Future demands of the poultry industry: will we meet our commitments sustainably in developed and developing economies? (2021, background): “Food security implies the physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for all to maintain a healthy and active life (Pinstrup-Andersen 2009).”