What are we assessing when we measure food security? A compendium and review of current metrics.

By A. Jones, F. Ngure, G. Pelto, S. Young. Advances in Nutrition, 2013

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Food Bank Usage Is a Poor Indicator of Food Insecurity: Insights from Canada (2015, background): “…and ongoing discussions of limitations of the current measurement tool, including those concerned about elements not captured related to food safety, cultural appropriateness, social acceptability, and nutritional sufficiency: Coates et al., 2006; Jones et al., 2013; Wunderlich and Norwood, 2006.”
Development of a Global Standard for Monitoring Hunger Worldwide (2013, methodology): “…which come closer to being direct measures of food access, include indicators of the quantity and quality of food consumed, such as food consumption scores, dietary diversity indicators, and food acquisition data obtained from household expenditure surveys (FAO, 2002a; Jones et al., 2013).”
Food security and the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES): ensuring progress by 2030 (2019, background): “A major contribution of EBFSSs has been linked to their ability to use answers provided by respondents on their food experiences and to classify them along a food insecurity continuum (Jones et al., 2013).”
Crop Yield Prediction Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Model for Sustainable Agrarian Applications (2020, background): “Agricultural supervision, especially the observation of crop yield, is indispensable to determine food security in a region [2].”