A systematic literature review of indicators measuring food security

Manikas, Ioannis; Ali, Beshir M.; Sundarakani, Balan

doi:10.1186/s40066-023-00415-7

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“…It has been proven that the national set of indicators of the state of food security (Table 1) contains a limited number of indicators. We agree with the scientific position of the authors of the work [9], who emphasizes that the indicator of calorie sufficiency at the household level is most often used as the only indicator of food security. We also draw attention to the rather limited list of indicators proposed in the methodological recommendations of Ukraine [12] for assessing food security.…”

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“…The purpose of [8] is to develop a comprehensive approach for monitoring the impact of an innovative component on the security of households, which can also be used in the process of assessing the relationships between various indicators. Article [9] presents a comprehensive literature review of food security indicators. This study offers the aspects and components of food security.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Monitoring of relationships between indicators of food security of the states

Poltorak,

Burkovska,

Khrystenko

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The conceptual foundations of monitoring the state’s food security system under the conditions of global turbulence have been deepened. It was determined that the set of indicators of the state of food security used in national practice is imperfect. It is emphasized that the totality of indicators cannot objectively contribute to identifying potential threats to sustainable development and adopting effective management decisions. Attention is focused on the need to consider the impact of other components, including the issues of the accessibility, availability, quality, and safety of food products, as well as their resilience and adaptability. The hypothesis regarding the direct relationship between the degree of compliance of agricultural production in the country with sustainable development principles and the overall level of economic accessibility of food has been proved. The established and mathematically proven direct relationship between the indicators made it possible to emphasize the need to raise the population’s living standards. This is necessary to reduce the negative impact of the production of agricultural products on the environment, which results from the understanding by consumers of the need to satisfy not only basic needs but also to preserve natural resources for future generations. It is mathematically proven that in countries with a high level of economic accessibility of food, the compliance of agricultural production with sustainable development principles has a high level and is strongly correlated with economic factors. In countries with medium and low indicators of economic accessibility of food, such a relationship does not have statistical significance. The conclusions drawn are useful for practical use in conditions of global economic turbulence.

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confidence: 99%

Monitoring of relationships between indicators of food security of the states

Poltorak,

Burkovska,

Khrystenko

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Proper intervention mechanisms demand proper analysis of food insecurity. Nevertheless, most of the previous researches have analyzed food security by considering only the food availability and access to food components [ 29 ]; and the utilization and stability aspects were seldom addressed when analyzing food security. Similarly, many food insecurity studies in Ethiopia used one or combined indicators of food security where the key components of food security were not fully addressed [ 44 ].…”

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A comprehensive analysis of food insecurity in the drought–prone rural areas of Tigray

Gebre,

Abraha,

Zenebe

et al. 2024

J Health Popul Nutr

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Background The number of globally food-insecure people is increasing since 2017. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of severely food-insecure people in the world. Tigray region of Ethiopia is one of the food-insecure regions, which, over the past many decades has been affected by recurrent food insecurities. In the drought–prone rural areas of Tigray, many people are living under the condition of chronic hunger. Proper food security studies are vital for proper intervention mechanisms. Yet, previous food security studies have rarely addressed the four pillars of food security: availability, access, utilization, and stability. In this study, all components are duly considered to assess the food insecurity status in the drought–prone rural areas of Tigray, Ethiopia. Of the 34 rural districts in Tigray, 363 households from three drought–prone rural districts were studied. Results Household Food Insecurity Access Scale and Food Insecurity Experience Scale were adapted to measure the food availability, access to food, and stability components of food security; and, Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS), Food Consumption Score (FCS), mid-upper arm circumference, and Bitot’s spot were used to analyze the food utilization aspect. Findings show that 68% of the studied community frequently ate less food than they felt they needed and 82.1% of the households have experienced hunger because of lack of food. The study rural districts were unconnected to road networks; hence, 87.9% of the elderly and 20.4% of the women and girls had no access to food markets. Regarding the food utilization, 81.5% of the studied households had poor FCS; and the average HDDS and FCS for the study areas were 2.47 and 18.9, respectively. The prevalence of Global acute malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) for 6–59 months of age children in the study areas were 50.3, 4.2, and 46.1%, respectively. More notably, the prevalence of SAM for children from the food-insecure households was 21.2%. The prevalence of MAM for pregnant and lactating women (PLW) in the study areas was 59.5. Further, the prevalence of Bitot’s spot among 6–59 months of age children was 1.9%. On the other hand, all the rural households had anxiety about their future food demands. Conclusion The rural households living in the studied areas were critically food-insecure. All the measurements implied that the food insecurity situation in the study areas was unacceptably worrisome and life-threatening. This calls for an instant action to avert the occurrence of famine and starvation in the drought–prone rural areas of Tigray region. Thus, interventions should primarily target the vulnerable rural people and need to be planned based on attaining food availability first rather than concurrently addressing all components of food security. Further, due emphasis should be given to diversifying livelihood strategies of the vulnerable villagers.

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“…The measurement of food insecurity is complex and there is no single instrument capturing all of the dimensions of food security (Manikas et al, 2023). Instruments such as the household food security survey module (HFSSM), household hunger scale (HHS), household food insecurity experience scale (FIES), and among others are validated to measure food insecurity at household level (Cafiero et al, 2018;Pe´rez-Escamilla, 2012); and often measure the food accessibility dimension (Anderson, 2018a(Anderson, , 2018b.…”

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confidence: 99%

Day Scholars Food Insecurity Experience Scale-Survey Module (DSFIES-SM): Psychometric Analysis

Kasujja,

Melgar-Quinonez,

Nambooze

2023

Sage Open

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Background: School feeding programs’ evaluation requires the measurement of food insecurity, a more objective indicator, within school in low-income countries. The Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) uses subjective indicators to report school feeding coverage rates across many countries that participate in the global survey of school meal programs all year round. Aim: To test the methodological feasibility of measuring a school food insecurity construct as a direct indicator of the effectiveness and efficiency of school feeding programs. Methods: Two-stage sampling was used during the selection of schools and 128 schoolchildren with a mean ( SD) age of 10.5(1.58) were recruited. Item Response Theory (IRT) and Classical Test Theory (CTT) approaches were utilized during DSFIES-SM development. Psychometric analysis was utilized to assess the psychometric properties of the measure of school food insecurity and to establish the construct-level reliability, convergent and discriminant validity of the DSFIES-SM. Results: DSFIES-SM generated acceptable item-level reliabilities, ranging from .75 to .78. The construct-level reliability of the DSFIES-SM was indicated by Cronbach’s α of .78. Composite reliability was at .77. Fit measures and tests of model fitness for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) (RMSEA < 0.0001; TLI = 1.06; SRMR = 0.043; CFI = 1.00, p = .85) confirmed that the data fitted the model perfectly. Conclusion: DSFIES-SM consists of twelve questions with dichotomous yes/no responses. DSFIES-SM has good convergent and discriminant validity. Findings suggest that the items compose a statistical scale designed to cover a range of severity of school food insecurity. Future replications to establish other forms of validity across different cultural contexts in low-income countries can be of benefit to the present research.

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A systematic literature review of indicators measuring food security

Cited by 40 publications

References 92 publications

Monitoring of relationships between indicators of food security of the states

Monitoring of relationships between indicators of food security of the states

A comprehensive analysis of food insecurity in the drought–prone rural areas of Tigray

Day Scholars Food Insecurity Experience Scale-Survey Module (DSFIES-SM): Psychometric Analysis

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