Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Estimates from Household Expenditure SurveysIn addressing the pervasive problem of hunger in the developing world, reliable information on food insecurity is essential for effectively targeting assistance, developing interventions, and evaluating progress. Yet arriving at an accurate and comparable measure of food insecurity remains a challenge. This report introduces new estimates of food insecurity based on food acquisition data collected as part of national household expenditure surveys (HESs). The report explores the extent and location of food insecurity, the scientific merit of estimates derived from HES food data, the differences between HES-based estimates and those reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and-ultimately-how HES data can be used to improve the accuracy of the FAO estimates currently used to monitor progress toward reducing hunger |
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Page x - Its need is now more urgent than ever as efforts are stepped up to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015.
Page 6 - care is the provision in the household and the community of time, attention and support to meet the physical, mental and social needs of the growing child and other family members
Page ix - Acknowledgments Funding for this research has been generously provided by the Australian Agency for International Development, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom, the United States Agency for International Development's Presidential Initiative to End Hunger in Africa, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the World Bank. The Africa Household Survey Databank of the World Bank, which facilitated access to many...
Page 1 - It has become even more urgent as efforts are stepped up to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015.
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Page 5 - Summit included several of those components when it asserted that "food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life
Page 33 - Senegal, all of the countries with aggregate food deficits had experienced adverse climatic shocks or severe conflict-induced instability in the years leading up to their surveys, with long-term consequences for both food supplies and the ability of households to gain access to them.