“A new, faster and more precise” way of measuring hunger and food insecurity across the world is soon to be field-experimented by FAO in several pilot countries.
“A new, faster and more precise” way of measuring hunger and food insecurity across the world is soon to be field-experimented by FAO in several pilot countries.
The new approach relies on gathering information on the extent and severity of hunger from food-insecure people, through a carefully-designed annual survey to be conducted in collaboration with polling specialists Gallup, Inc.
Starting this month, the new approach –known as the Voices of the Hungry project– will be finalized in collaboration with major experts in the field and tested on a pilot basis in four countries to be defined.
The plan is to then extend the survey to more than 160 000 respondents in up to 150 countries covered by the Gallup World Poll and to publish updated results on each country every year. The project will run for five years and will lead to the establishment of a new FAO-certified standard for food security monitoring that could then be easily adopted by other household surveys.
