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From food availability to nutritional capabilities: Advancing food security analysis

Francesco Burchi and Pasquale De Muro

Food Policy, 2016, vol. 60, issue C, 10-19

Abstract: This paper has a threefold objective. First, it provides a comprehensive review of different approaches to analysing food security. Second, it highlights the added value provided by the capability approach and the human development paradigm. Third, it proposes a methodology to assess food security through this approach. Our proposal entails three basic steps: (1) analysis of food entitlements; (2) analysis of nutritional capabilities and (3) analysis of the capability to be food secure. In this way, we can move beyond income, entitlement or livelihood related frameworks, and identify the root causes of food insecurity. Food insecurity can be the result of a lack of education, health or other basic capabilities that constitute people’s wellbeing. This, therefore, allows situating the study within the broader area of wellbeing and development.

Keywords: Food security; Capability approach; Human development; Livelihood; Entitlement; Low-income countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.03.008

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