Food Security

Food security is defined by the U.S. Agency for International Development as "when all people at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life". This definition further notes that three distinct variables are central to the attainment of food security: availability, access, and utilization. These variables are interrelated.

Resource Documents

• Building Household Food Security Measurement Tools from the Ground Up
• DFID's Sustainable Livelihoods Distance Learning Guide
• Freedom From Hunger's Technical Tools
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Indicators
• Urban Food Security and Vulnerability: Developments and issues in Zimbabwe
• Urban Programming: The Big Development Challenge (A Paper Presented by the SHAHAR Urban Development Project)

Conferences and Workshops

• Developing Best Practice for Design and Implementation of Food Security Programs: Workshop Materials, 1999
• Developing Best Practice for Design and Implementation of Food Security Programs: Workshop Proceedings, 1999
• Food Security Assessments Workshop 2006
• Measuring Household Food Insecurity Workshop Report April 2004
• Sustainable Food Security for All by 2020 -- Proceedings of an International Conference September 4-6, 2001 . Bonn, Germany

Program Management Tools

• Africare Field Manual on the Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Food Security Activities
• American Red Cross Food Security Proposal Review Checklists and Tools
• Evaluating Title II Development-oriented Multi-Year Assistance Projects
• Food Access Indicator Review
• Food Security Indicators and Framework for Use in the Monitoring and Evaluation of Food Aid Programs
• Food for the Hungry's Community Vulnerability to Food Insecurity Assessment Methodology
• Food for the Hungry's Food Security Program Lifecycle Toolkit
• New Approaches for Measuring Household Food Insecurity and Poverty: the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale

Food Security Links