Methodology for measuring sustainable development targets and indicators related to food security

The report is divided into four main parts. The first part reviews food security as outlined within the SDGs and briefly provides the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia’s (ESCWA’s) suggested SDGs targets and indicators related to food security as well as the indicators that have been assigned to the FAO as the leading agency on food security in addition to those being reported upon in the new SOFI reports. The second part overviews three methodological frameworks providing the ex-post (observed) assessment or measurement of food security, which are relatively well-recognized and used for food security or insecurity assessment: (a) the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), (b) the Global Hunger Index (GHI) and (c) the Global Food Security Index (GFSI). The third part reviews two other methodologies that provide the ex-ante (predicted) assessment of food security, which build on caloric intake and/or availability to determine the status of food security. The last part of the report reviews an iteration of the last two methodologies, which was used to develop a framework to assess the existing gap in caloric nutritional consumption and production at both the sub-regional and Arab levels.

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