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- Equips readers with the knowledge needed to recognize the features of food insecurity and to design suitable responses
- Identifies emerging challenges and explores policy lessons from the past
- Thoroughly covers definitional and conceptual issues, information systems, data sources, and indicators
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Keywords
- food insecurity
- food security data
- food security indicators
- food security approaches
- food policies
- nutrition security
- food self-sufficiency
- food security information systems
- global hunger index
- food consumption score
- dietary diversity index
- food coping strategy index
- household hunger scale
- world food summit
- development aid
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Maria Sassi
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Food Insecurity
Book Subtitle: Key Features, Indicators, and Response Design
Authors: Maria Sassi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70362-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70361-9Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88925-2Published: 23 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70362-6Published: 24 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 132
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Development Aid, Development Economics, Agriculture, Food Science, Nutrition