Rural Households’ Livelihood and Well-Being
Statistics on Rural Development and Agriculture Household Income

2007

The handbook is intended for the benefit of various groups concerned with rural development and the evolving nature of the agricultural industry.

The FAO parametric versus the IFPRI non-parametric approach to estimating the prevalence of undernourishment: Issues relating to the use of household level data from National Household Surveys
Food security working paper

2007

A non-parametric approach suggested by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for measuring food deprivation (undernourishment) is not an improvement to the current FAO parametric approach.  

On reliability of estimates of inequality in distributions derived from sample survey data
Working paper series

2007

For studying inequalities in populations, the interest often lies in estimating frequency distributions. Several factors of interest, such as income or expenditure, depict highly skewed distributions. The study of economic inequality with respect to such distributions is of common interest, and estimation of frequency distributions is more meaningful in such [...]

Food deprivation trends: Mid-term review of progress towards the World Food Summit target
Working paper series

2006

Ten years after the World Food Summit (WFS) and less than 10 years before 2015 (the target year for halving the number of undernourished), the hunger situation in the Developing World still remains of great concern.

Household food wastage in Turkey
Working paper series

2006

Household Budget Surveys, Household Income and Expenditure Surveys and Food Balance Sheets, provide useful data for epidemiological research and for developing National Food and Nutrition Policies.