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The Coping Strategies Index: A tool for rapidly measuring food security and the impact of food aid programs in emergencies

FAO International Workshop on “Food Security in Complex Emergencies: building policy frameworks to address longer-term programming challenges” Tivoli, 23-25 September 2003

Year of publication 2003

Author Dan Maxwell, Ben Watkins, Robin Wheeler and Greg Collins;Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

Product type Meeting

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Synopsis (short abstract) This paper looks at the Coping Strategies Index, which was developed by CARE to provide regular measurements for monitoring changes in food security and assessing the impact of food aid interventions in highly food insecure countries. The CSI is an indicator of household food security that is relatively simple and quick to use, straightfoward to understand and correlates well with more complex measures of food security.

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