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Measuring Household Food Insecurity Workshop Report (2004)
FANTA supported activities to validate the U.S. Household Food Security Scale (HFSS) for use in developing countries and to test its usefulness as an impact indicator for the access component of food security in program evaluations. The underlying concept of the HFSS approach is that food insecurity is a measurable experience that can be described and analyzed.
Cornell University, Tufts University, Africare, World Vision, and Freedom from Hunger collaborated with FANTA in implementing these activities. In addition, a range of researchers and food security program managers used and adapted the U.S. Department of Agriculture approach in a number of countries to answer a range of different questions. As a next step in the effort to develop a simple, standardized, questionnaire-based approach to measure household food insecurity, FANTA held a 2-day workshop for researchers, practitioners, USAID staff, and FANTA staff. Participants at the workshop presented the results of the field validation work and took the initial steps in developing the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (see Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide, Version 3 [2007]) for use by Title II and child survival and health programs. This report provides a description of the workshop and its findings.
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