The concepts of food deficit, hunger, undernourishment and food security arediscussed. Axioms and indices for the assessment of nutrition of individuals and groups aresuggested. Furthermore a measure for food aid donor performance is developed and applied toa sample of bilateral and multilateral...

The concepts of food deficit, hunger, undernourishment and food security are discussed. Axioms and indices for the assessment of nutrition of individuals and groups are suggested. Furthermore a measure for food aid donor performance is developed and applied to a sample of bilateral and...

In their Food Security Assessment, the U.S. Department of Agriculture uses income data and a cross-country Engel curve for food energy (energy—income curve) to estimate distribution-sensitive food gaps of developing countries. In a recent Review of Agricultural Economics paper, Senauer and Sur...

Programmes against hunger require the identification of the undernourished. For this purpose a cutoff point is fixed which partitions the population of a region into two groups: those with insufficient access to food and those whose food needs are satisfied. We describe the standard method used...

Food aid to fight hunger in developing countries is provided on a bilateral bases and by multilateral organisations. This paper examines the hypothesis that multilateral food aid is more effective than bilateral food aid. We measure donor performance under the premise that donations should...