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A model of vulnerability to food insecurity

Year of publication 2010

Pages 25

Author Jeronim Capaldo, Panagiotis Karfakis, Marco Knowles and Mark Smulders;Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

Product type Document

Series title FAO Agricultural Economics Working Paper

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The more widely used food security analysis methods mainly consider current access to food, failing to provide policy makers with forward-looking information. While drawing on household survey data, the vulnerability analysis model presented here provides estimates of the probability that a given household will lose or gain access to sufficient food in the near future.

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