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Using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) to monitor the impact of COVID-19

This document provides guidance on implementing the Food Insecurity Experience Scale for the purpose of monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on food security. Important considerations are covered such as survey design, method of data collection, translation and linguistic adaptation of the survey module, and preparation of the interview script, among others.

Also available in Spanish.

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URL

http://www.fao.org/3/ca9205en/CA9205EN.pdf

Date

2020

Publisher

FAO

Region

Global

Keywords

Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), Data & statistics, Food environments, Food security, Food systems, Hunger, Inequality, Research, Zero hunger