Food security as resilience: reconciling definition and measurement

Upton, Joanna; Cissé, Jennifer Denno; Barrett, Chris

doi:10.1111/agec.12305

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“…On an operational level, food security is conceptualized by the four dimensions: availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability [see also Upton et al (2015) for new approaches to conceptualize food security measurements]. The availability of food, measured by the total food supply, and access to food, measured-for example-by real income of households (relative to food prices), are necessary but not sufficient conditions to ensure food security.…”

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Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview

Kalkuhl

Braun

Torero

2016

Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

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Section: The Concept Of Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview

Kalkuhl

Braun

Torero

2016

Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

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“…Further, Upton et al. () show that household level demographics are significantly associated with household food security but are not related to child undernutrition.…”

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“…While the HFIAS and rCSI both measure food security in terms of access (Upton et al., ), their underlying concepts differ. Using a reference period of four weeks, the HFIAS is derived from a set of questions related to food availability and household behavior (Coates et al., ).…”

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“…The fourth dimension, stability, relates to continuous food security throughout seasons and across years. They are hierarchical, that is, without sufficient availability of food the access dimension cannot be met and to fulfill the utilization dimension access to food is indispensable (Barrett, ; Upton et al., ). Accordingly, a household or individual is food secure if all four dimensions are satisfied.…”

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Matching food security and malnutrition indicators: evidence from Southeast Asia

Bühler

Hartje

Grote

2018

Agricultural Economics

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This article aims to understand the relation between household food security and individual undernutrition. The multitude of indicators available raises the question which aspects of food security are captured by the respective indicator. In our analysis, we first assess the relation between the dimensions of food security and households' socioeconomic characteristics. Second, we examine whether household indicators detect undernutrition in children. Finally, we investigate the role of individual-specific characteristics for child undernutrition. The analysis is based on a novel data set of 1,200 rural households from Cambodia and Lao PDR, which combines household-and individual-level data. We capture household food security by three indicators including a dietary diversity score, a consumption behavior measure, and an experiential measure. Individual nutrition status is measured via anthropometric indicators. Our results show that different household-level indicators capture fundamentally different aspects of food security. Moreover, household food security fails to explain stunting for children under five. Dietary diversity indicators, however, explain underweight in children to a small extent. We call for more research on intrahousehold allocation of food and stress the implications of our research for the design and targeting of food and nutrition support programs.JEL classifications: Q18, I15, O15

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“…Furthermore, this region faces significant persistent challenges from global climate change, e.g., drought and plant diseases [17,18]. As a recent contribution to the analysis of food insecurity, the development resilience framework encompasses mitigation strategies and supports the general conclusion from earlier studies that greater food security must be achieved through increased returns to farmers' resources [19][20][21]. The framework states that an individual or HH is resilient if they are able to withstand shocks and stressors without falling into poverty [22].…”

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Adoption of High-Yielding Groundnut Varieties: The Sustainability of a Farmer-Led Multiplication-Dissemination Program in Eastern Uganda

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This study examines the adoption of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of groundnut by smallholders in eastern Uganda. The primary focus of this work is the analysis of the sustainability of impacts from a regional farmer-led HYV dissemination and multiplication program. Data collected in 2014 is used to determine the lasting impact of the program conducted a decade prior, from 2001 to 2004. The structure of the data, which includes a treatment and 2-part control group, is critical to the identification of project impacts, measured as groundnut land allocation to groundnut HYVs (%). Fractional regression, propensity score matching and instrumental variable techniques are utilized to address potential bias from model specification, selection, and endogeneity. We find that, on average, participating households allocated 21% more of their land in groundnuts to HYVs relative to controls. Diffusion of program benefits through spillover is revealed by statistically significant differences in mean adoption between neighbor and non-neighbor controls, such that benefits are transferred from participants to their neighbors but not to the non-neighbor control group. We also find that, because of seed saving practices, the average yield for HYVs decreased over time to levels below those obtained from landrace varieties. Thus, the program effectively aided in information dissemination and technology transfer within rural communities. However, additional knowledge transfer is critical to the sustainability of food security outcomes among participant farmers.

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Food security as resilience: reconciling definition and measurement

Cited by 141 publications

References 16 publications

Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview

Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview

Matching food security and malnutrition indicators: evidence from Southeast Asia

Adoption of High-Yielding Groundnut Varieties: The Sustainability of a Farmer-Led Multiplication-Dissemination Program in Eastern Uganda

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