Food security composite indices: implications for policy and practice

Fabio Santeramo

Development in Practice, 2015, vol. 25, issue 4, 594-600

Abstract: Food security is a major topic in academic and international debates. Numerous indicators have been proposed in order to establish which countries are in need of improved food security status, but the lack of consensus as to which indicator of food insecurity is the most appropriate has motivated scholars to propose composite indexes. Building composite indexes involves multiple choices. This Viewpoint warns how discretional choices of algorithms to compute composite indexes for food security may alter the findings. By commenting on the implications that different measurement choices may have in terms of global indexes, the Viewpoint raises provocative practical and political concerns.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2015.1029439

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