Comparisons in household food security : United States and India

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    • Owusu, Samuel
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Comparisons in household food security : United States and India

Samuel Owusu, editor

(Global agriculture : developments, issues, and research)(Nutrition and diet research progress series)

Novinka, c2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book provides an overview of research in the study of household food security in the United States and India. An estimated 85.1 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2011, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (14.9 percent) were food insecure, meaning that the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food. Comparatively, this book provides a quantitative assessment of food security using a large household-level expenditure survey conducted by the Government of India during 2004/2005. The analysis tests the impact of several key assumptions required to estimate actual calories consumed from the expenditure data.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Household Food Security in the United States in 2011
  • Estimating the Range of Food-Insecure Households in India
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BB15482369
  • ISBN
    • 9781624175305
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 91 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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