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Food security as resilience: reconciling definition and measurement
Author(s) -
Upton Joanna B.,
Cissé Jennifer Denno,
Barrett Christopher B.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/agec.12305
Subject(s) - axiom , food security , resilience (materials science) , measure (data warehouse) , set (abstract data type) , work (physics) , psychological resilience , computer science , economics , environmental resource management , geography , mathematics , data mining , engineering , social psychology , psychology , physics , thermodynamics , agriculture , mechanical engineering , geometry , archaeology , programming language
In this article, we draw out a set of axioms for food security measurement that follow directly from the internationally agreed 1996 FAO definition. Building on recent work on the theory and measurement of development resilience, we then propose an empirical strategy to measure food security that addresses these measurement axioms better than do prevailing measures. We empirically illustrate this approach using a panel data set from northern Kenya.