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Estimating household and institutional food wastage and losses in the context of measuring food deprivation and food excess in the total population

Year of publication 2006

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Synopsis (short abstract) The FAO’s measure of food deprivation, the prevalence of undernourishment, is conceptually based on a comparison of dietary energy intake (DEI) with a normed minimum energy requirement which is compatible with a healthy life while performing light physical activity, taking into account the inequality in access to food. The inequality is expressed in terms of the biological variation and non-biological variation among individuals in the population.

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