A review of hunger indices and methods to monitor country commitment to fighting hunger

Edoardo Masset ORCID logo; (2011) A review of hunger indices and methods to monitor country commitment to fighting hunger. Food policy, 36 (SUPPL.). S102-S108. ISSN 0306-9192 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.11.007
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Several indices measuring hunger and progress in achieving hunger eradication have been proposed in the literature. This paper reviews existing hunger indices and critically assesses their quality against a number of desirable properties. Hunger indices are found to be unsatisfactory in a number of ways: they ignore distributional issues; they neglect the occurrence of food and health shocks; and are sometimes based on unreliable data. Anthropometric measurements, stunting in particular, emerge as powerful indicators of hunger and are ideal for addressing a number of policy relevant issues. The paper also introduces a conceptual framework for an index measuring country commitment to fighting hunger. The constitutive elements of this index are illustrated: political will, anti-hunger policies and programmes. Suggestions are made on how a commitment index can be built and what are the data requirements. © 2010.

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