Measuring food insecurity: Can an indicator based on localized coping behaviors be used to compare across contexts?

Food Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 533-540

  Maxwell, Daniel ^a   Caldwell, Richard ^b   Langworthy, Mark ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TANGO International ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparability; Coping strategies; Food security; Humanitarian emergency; Indicator; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COPING STRATEGY; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SUPPLY; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; MONITORING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 55049099987     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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