Food insecurity, and its extreme form, hunger, occur whenever the accessibility to an adequate supply of nutritional … 1998 an estimated 9.7% of US households were classified as food insecure (6.2% being food insecure without evidence of … hunger, and 3.5% being food insecure with moderate to severe hunger). This means that approximately 10 million households …

translated into comprehensive action to address the problem of land degradation, which poses a serious threat to long-term food …

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 …

870 million people going hungry, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations … communities; for country-level policymakers in food-insecure countries; and for development and humanitarian practitioners. …

This paper evaluates the impact of an integrated rural development programme on farming techniques and food security in …