The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), like many development practitioners, often finds that … lacking on the nature of poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition; the location of food insecure areas; and the causal links …, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions, including those designed to ameliorate food insecurity and malnutrition …

"Rising world prices for fuel and food represent a negative terms-of-trade shock for Mozambique. The impacts of these … southern region of the country are more vulnerable to food price increases. Rural households, particularly in the northern and … central parts of Mozambique, often benefit because they sell more food goods than they consume (i.e., net seller). Long …

"This paper uses data from national household expenditure surveys to explore whether food insecurity is more severe in … South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa. It employs two indicators of the diet quantity dimension of food insecurity, or the … inability to access sufficient food: the prevalence of food energy deficiency and the prevalence of severe food energy …

. Beneficiary households that received at least half of the intended transfers experienced a significant improvement in food … likely to be food secure, to borrow for productive purposes, use improved agricultural technologies, and operate their own …

"The objective of this study is to validate the World Food Programme's (WFP) method of establishing the prevalence of … food insecurity. WFP's method has two parts: (1) the construction of a Food Consumption Score (FCS) and (2) the … classification of food security status based on the FCS. Our validation work has the following components: (1) collecting and …

In MENA, household food insecurity, which is closely related to poverty and undernourishment, is most severe in rural … to increased national and household-level food security is pro-poor growth, driven by export-oriented, labor …-intensive sectors. Agricultural sector policies should be subordinate to the pro-poor growth goal and not to the goal of food self …

trade and agricultural policies may help or hinder food security in WTO member countries. These concerns were formulated … those concerns, "food security and the need to protect the environment". They were also reaffirmed in the Doha Declaration … effectively take account of their development needs, including food security and rural development". Although the issue of food …