Objective indicators of large-scale food shortages? Some remarks on their purpose and limitations

In the past, a rather late realization of acute and large-scale food shortages often contributed to insufficient preventive or remedial action. Against this backround a Working Party set up by the FAO Committee on World Food Security has suggested a number of “objective indicators” which are hoped to enable the FAO to make a rapid preliminary judgment of the overall food situation and of the nature of food shortages. Are these hopes justified?

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Year of publication:	1981
Authors:	Urff, Winfried ; Ahrens, Heinz
Published in:	Intereconomics. - Hamburg : Verlag Weltarchiv, ISSN 0020-5346. - Vol. 16.1981, 4, p. 178-182
Publisher:	Hamburg : Verlag Weltarchiv
Subject:	Food Security

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1007/BF02924766 [DOI] 871606011 [GVK] hdl:10419/139752 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:inteco:139752 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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