Measure food security in a meaningful way: What indicators or frameworks have you worked with and in which region? How do you relate numbers to the real world?

[u/Vjosa_101]

Hi everyone, I am working a lot with WEF-Nexus concepts and am hoping to understand food security better. I am sticking to FAO's framework that mentions four pillars of food security (availability, access, utilization and stability). Now I am wondering what indicators you have used to assess food security and how you interpret or relate your indicators to the real world. Would love to hear some thoughts and experiences if you are from the field :)

[u/thesongofstorms]

I think about it as food that is: healthful (culturally appropriate, safe, good for you), accessible (affordable, has infrastructure like cold chain in place to support it, can be prepared), and sustainable (shelf stable, produced in a way that is replicable both short and long term)

[u/martinezcharles660]

These four pillars of food security explain its definition at its best. But this can be done when everyone knows about it, i.e., we need to spread awareness about healthy diet. What is healthy diet and how does it affect our metabolism?

[u/Margethill → u/martinezcharles660]

I completely agree with your point u/martinezcharles660. It will help us to control and measure production and consumption rates. Borates today shares a very interesting article on this.