Comparison of Food Consumption Score (FCS) and Calorie Intake Indicators to Measure Food Security

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.296How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Food consumption score; Calorie intake; Food security

Abstract

This study summarized international common used indicators to measure food security, and compared two indicators, calorie intake and Food Consumption Score (FCS) based on the evidence of filed survey in 6 rural counties of west China. The results showed that the proportion of food secure households is 75.8% measured by the calorie intake, which are nearly 10 percentage points lower than that of measured by FCS. The match degree of the results measured by these two indicators is 70.03%. FCS indicator narrows down the gap of grain contributions and enlarges the gap of poultry and meats contributions compare with the calorie indicator. FCS considers diet diversity and balance more.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiaqi Huang
AU  - Fengying Nie
AU  - Jieying Bi
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Comparison of Food Consumption Score (FCS) and Calorie Intake Indicators to Measure Food Security
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1152
EP  - 1158
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.296
DO  - 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.296
ID  - Huang2015/11
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