Food insecurity is a daily reality for hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Although its most extreme manifestations are often obvious, many other households facing
constraints in their access to food are less identifiable. Operational agencies lack a method
for differentiating households at varying degrees of food insecurity in order to target and
evaluate their interventions. This chapter provides an overview of a set of papers associated
with a research initiative that seeks to identify more precise, yet simple, measures of …