Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
Posted by on August 16, 2002
COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT
This report provides a toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various aspects of community food security It includes a general guide to community assessment and focused materials for examining six basic assessment components related to community food security. These include guides for profiling general community characteristics and community food resources as well as materials for assessing household food security, food resource accessibility, food availability and affordability, and community food production resources. Data collection tools include secondary data sources, focus group guides, and a food store survey instrument. The toolkit was developed through a collaborative process that was initiated at the community Food Security Assessment Conference sponsored by ERS in June 1999.
It is designed for use by community-based nonprofit organizations and business groups, local government officials, private citizens, and community planners.
Released Tuesday, July 23, 2002
See http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/efan02013/
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