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Indicators, Tools and Instruments

How do we measure Food Security and Nutrition?

Examples of the most commonly used indicators are shown in the table below.

Social Level Availability Accessibility Utilisation Stability
Macro
(national)
  • Fertility rate
  • Food Production
  • Population Flows
  • Food price
  • Wages
  • Per capita food consumption
  • Stunting rate
  • Wasting rate
  • Low Birth Weight rate
  • Food price fluctuation
  • Regional gaps
Meso
(province, district, commune, village)
  • Harvest-time staple food production
  • Market and retail food prices
  • Latrine coverage
  • Diarrhoeal Disease rate
  • Pre-/post harvest food
  • Women's Body Mass Index
Micro
(household/family, individual)
  • Food storage
  • Consumption of wild foods
  • Meal frequency
  • Food frequency
  • Employment
  • Weight-for-age
  • Goiter
  • Anaemia
  • Pre-harvest food practices
  • Migration


Intervention Tools & Instruments

Below are some examples of interventions used in FNS programmes to address food and nutrition insecurity at different social levels

Social Level Availability Accessibility Utilisation Stability
Macro
(national)
  • Family planning programme
  • Food stamps programme
  • Safe motherhood programme
  • Saving and loan policy
Meso
(province, district, commune, village)
  • Small-scale irrigation project
  • School feeding programme
  • Measles immunisation campaign
  • Community Planning Committees
Micro
(household/family, individual)
  • Use of fertiliser
  • Breastfeeding coaching
  • Latrine construction
  • Growth chart
  • Food storage


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