This chapter illustrates six conceptual frameworks suitable for identifying the information to be collected for the elaboration of appropriate indicators to assess the food security status and its features. The neoclassical framework investigates the different typologies of food deficit at the macro-level....
the influence of institutional quality on health outcomes, emphasizing the variability of exogenous forces that may affect contemporary health outcomes in South Asia. This approach is instrumental in understanding how existing governance responds to catastrophic food security and informs potential policy measu...
Alaskan Inuit Food Security Conceptual Framework: How to Assess the Arctic From an Inuit Perspective (Inuit Circumpolar Council, 2015). Loring, P. A. & Gerlach, S. C. Searching for progress on food security in the North American North: a research synthesis and meta-analysis of the peer-revi...
Introduction to Food Security: Concepts and Measurement - ScienceDirect This chapter introduces the analytical concepts and measurement issues related to food security. Using a broad conceptual framework the basic determinants,... SC Babu,SN Gajanan,P Sanyal - 《Food Security Poverty & Nutrition Policy...
Current situation and literature in relation to poverty, food security and employment is reviewed. The following issues are discussed: employment-poverty links in theory and strategies; past experiences and reviews; and, conceptual framework and research questions. A table presents a guide to the revi...
Second, we analyze the effects of Fairtrade on different dimensions of household living standard, such as food security, health, education, and housing. We do this by disaggregating total consumption expenditures into different expenditure categories. In addition, we use household-level dietary data ...
After elaborating on the recent developments on international markets and in international policymaking, the key concepts "food security," "volatility," and "extreme events" are explained. A conceptual framework that integrates the existing theoretical and empirical literature on volatility and food ...
Brazil currently offers an important conceptual framework for food and nutritional security, and a relevant context of related public policy and programming. Recently, moreover, the country included the right to food among the social rights stipulated in its constitution. These achievements are the res...
In this phase food security becomes a key element of a new consensus frame, which links together pieces of discourse that often existed in separate fields of activity and policy. The analysis is carried out within a conceptual framework that focuses attention on the co-evolution between discourse...
Addressing this challenge requires the identification of the drivers, tradeoffs and impacts of bioenergy production, trade and use in the Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus. The key objective of this paper is to provide an analytical framework and assess the track record of policy actions to ...