Although food security measurement has been substantially expanded in recent decades, there persists significant … dissatisfaction with existing measurement systems, especially in the wake of the global food and financial crisis. In this paper we … first set out a list of criteria that an ideal food security measurement system should satisfy. We then benchmark existing …

reliable empirical estimates of poverty levels has grown dramatically... This paper contributes to the poverty measurement … philosophical roots of information theory and the links between information theory and other estimation criteria fill volumes, the …

attractiveness of the CBN approach for practical poverty measurement problems." Authors' Abstract …