Undernourishment and critical food poverty: Indicators at national and sub-national levels

2009

Indicators to measure food poverty and undernourishment are useful for understanding food insecurity at national level and within countries. This paper discusses two indicators: proportion of undernourishment, and proportion of critical food poverty. Both indicators are based on nutritional underlying criteria and derived from food consumption and income data collected [...]

Selected Indicators of Food and Agricultural Development in the Asia-Pacific Region 1999-2009

2009

This is the twenty-sixth issue of the above publication, a comprehensive and detailed compilation of statistics on farming, livestock, fishery, forestry and nutrition in Asia-Pacific countries for the decade 1998-2008. Statistics are listed separately for developing countries (including transition economies) and developed countries in the region.

El estado mundial del la agricultura y la alimentacíon

2009

La edición del año en curso de El estado mundial de la agricultura y la alimentación se publica en un momento decisivo. Elmundo atraviesa una turbulencia financiera que ha provocado graves contratiempos económicos.

Tracking results in agriculture and rural development in less-than-ideal conditions

2008

The Sourcebook provides a number of workable approaches for designing an M&E system that would be of greatest relevance to different agricultural and rural development (ARD) activities, projects and programmes, and degree of data availability. A set of 19 priority indicators based on the criteria of compatibility, availability and relevance [...]

The Probability Distribution Framework for estimating the Prevalence of Undernourishment
Working paper series

2007

In his pioneering study carried in the early 1960’s, Sukhatme had formulated the estimate of the prevalence of undernourishment in a population within a bivariate distribution framework where dietary energy consumption (DEC) and dietary energy requirement (DER) are considered as random variables. The evaluation of the formula required the specification [...]