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{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Share of dietary energy supply derived from cereals, roots and tubers (%) (3-year average)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension "availability". The indicator expresses the energy supply (in kcal/caput/day) provided by cereals, roots and tubers as a percentage of the total Dietary Energy Supply (DES) (in kcal/caput/day) calculated from the correponding countries in the FAOSTAT food balance sheets. This indicator provides information on the quality of the diet. It provides a cross country comparable measure of the share of dietary energy supply derived from cereals, roots and tubers. The indicator is calculated in three year averages, from 1990-92 to 2011-13, to reduce the impact of possible errors in estimated DES, due to the difficulties in properly accounting of stock variations in major food.",
    "id": "FAO-21012-6121",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Percentage (3-year average)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land rights;food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21012-6121"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Percentage of arable land equipped for irrigation (%) (3-year average)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension "stability". This indicator is the ratio between arable land equipped for irrigation and total arable land. Arable land is defined as the land under temporary agricultural crops (multiple-cropped areas are counted only once), temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow (less than five years). The abandoned land resulting from shifting cultivation is not included in this category. Data for arable land are not meant to indicate the amount of land that is potentially cultivable. Total arable land equipped for irrigation is defined as the area equipped to provide water (via irrigation) to the crops. It includes areas equipped for full and partial control irrigation, equipped lowland areas, pastures, and areas equipped for spate irrigation. This indicator provides a measure of the dependence of a countrys or regions agriculture on irrigation. It shows the vulnerability of agriculture to water stress and climatic shocks (such as droughts), which has implications for national food security depending on production and trade patterns. The indicator is calculated in three year averages, from 1990-92 to 2010-12, to reduce the impact of possible errors in estimated land.",
    "id": "FAO-21034-6121",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Percentage (3-year average)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land rights;land use;water management;",
    "related_themes": "Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21034-6121"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Percentage of children under 5 years of age who are stunted (%)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension "utilization". This indicator expresses the ercentage of stunting (height-for-age less than -2 standard deviations of the WHO Child Growth Standards median) among children aged 0-5 years. This indicator belongs to a set of indicators whose purpose is to measure nutritional imbalance and malnutrition resulting in undernutrition (assessed by underweight, stunting and wasting) and overweight. Child growth is the most widely used indicator of nutritional status in a community and is internationally recognized as an important public-health indicator for monitoring health in populations. In addition, children who suffer from growth retardation as a result of poor diets and/or recurrent infections tend to have a greater risk of suffering illness and death. The indicator is also included in the set of World Development Indicators by the World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.STNT.ZS)",
    "id": "FAO-21025-6121",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Percentage (%)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land use;poverty;food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21025-6121"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Percentage of children under 5 years of age affected by wasting (%)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension "utilization". Wasting prevalence is the proportion of children under five whose weight for height is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59. This indicator belongs to a set of indicators whose purpose is to measure nutritional imbalance and malnutrition resulting in undernutrition (assessed by underweight, stunting and wasting) and overweight. Child growth is the most widely used indicator of nutritional status in a community and is internationally recognized as an important public-health indicator for monitoring health in populations. In addition, children who suffer from growth retardation as a result of poor diets and/or recurrent infections tend to have a greater risk of suffering illness and death. The indicator is also included in the set of World Development Indicators by the World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.WAST.ZS)",
    "id": "FAO-21026-6121",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Percentage (%)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land use;poverty;food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21026-6121"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Per capita food supply variability (kcal/capita/day)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension "stability". Per capita food supply variability corresponds to the variability of the "food supply in kcal/caput/day" as disseminated in FAOSTAT. The per capita food supply variability compares the variations of the food supply across countries and time. Missing values in the dietary energy supply are interpolated using a linear trend. The series is then detrended by fitting a cubic spline by ordinary least squares to the series. The difference between the cubic fit and the acual values are then calculated. Lastly, the volatility for a specific year is defined as the standard deviation of these differences over the previous five years. The aggregates are computed applying the same methodology to the aggregates of the food supply variable.",
    "id": "FAO-21031-6128",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "kcal/capita/day",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land use;poverty;food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Socio-Economic & Institutional Context;Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21031-6128"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Value of food imports over total merchandise exports (%) (3-year average)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension "stability". It is the share of the value of food (excl. fish) imports over total merchandise exports. This indicator provides a measure of vulnerability and captures the adequacy of foreign exchange reserves to pay for food imports, which has implications for national food security depending on production and trade patterns. The indicator is calculated in three year averages, from 1990-92 to 2010-11, to reduce the impact of possible errors in estimated trade flows.",
    "id": "FAO-21033-6121",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Percentage (3-year average)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land use;land economics;food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Socio-Economic & Institutional Context;Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21033-6121"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Cereal import dependency ratio (%) (3-year average)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension "stability". The cereal imports dependency ratio tells how much of the available domestic food supply of cereals has been imported and how much comes from the country's own production. It is computed as (cereal imports - cereal exports)/(cereal production + cereal imports - cereal exports) * 100. Given this formula the indicator assumes only values <= 100. Negative values indicate that the country is a net exporter of cereals. This indicator provides a measure of the dependence of a country or region from cereal imports. The greater the indicator, the higher the dependence. The indicator is calculated in three year averages, from 1990-92 to 2009-11, to reduce the impact of possible errors in estimated production and trade, due to the difficulties in properly accounting of stock variations in major food.",
    "id": "FAO-21035-6121",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Percentage (3-year average)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land use;food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Socio-Economic & Institutional Context;Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21035-6121"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Prevalence of severe food insecurity in the total population (%) (3-year average)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension \"access\". The prevalence of severe food insecurity in an estimate of the percentage of people in the population who live in housholds classified as severely food insecure. The assessment is conducted using data collected with the Food Insecurity Experience Scale or a compatible experience-based food security measurement questionnaire (such as the HFSSM, the HFIAS, the EBIA, the ELCSA, etc.). The probability to be food insecure is estimated using the one-parameter logistic Item Response Theory model (the Rasch model) and thresholds for classification are made cross country comparable by calibrating the metrics obtained in each country against the FIES global refernce scale, maintained by FAO. The threshold to classify \"severe\"food insecurity corresponds to the severity associated with the item \"having not eaten for an entrie day\"on the global FIES scale. In simpler terms, a household is classified as severely food insecure when at least one adult in the household has reported to have been exposed, at times during the year, to several of the most severe experiences described in the FIES questions, such as to have been forced to reduce the quantity of the food, to have skipped meals, having gone hungry, or having to go for a whole day without eating because of a lack of money or other resources. It is an indicator of lack of food access. This is indicator 2.1.2 in the SDG framework, to monitor target 2.1 (\"By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, [], to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round\"). The indicator is calculated as a three year average (2014-16), to reduce the impact of excess sampling variability due to small size of the samples used for many countries. All countries for which suitable experience-based food insecurity data are available. Aggregate values for country groups are computed as population-weighted averages of the countries prevalence values and are compiled when countries for which there is a national estimates cover at least 80% of the total population in the group fo countries. More details on the methodology for computing the prevalence of severe food insecurity are in \"Methods for estimating comparable prevalence rates of food insecurity experienced by adults throughout the world\", Voices of the Hungry Technical Report N. 1, April 2016. See also the metadata document.  The previous code used for this indicator was FAO-21040-6121 (Item code21040, Element code 6121)",
    "id": "FAO-210401-6121",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Percentage (%)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land use;poverty;food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Socio-Economic & Institutional Context;Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-210401-6121"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Per capita food production variability (I$ per person constant 2004-06)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) in the dimension "stability". Per capita food production variability corresponds to the variability of the "food net per capita production value in constant 2004-2006 international $" as disseminated in FAOSTAT. The per capita food production variability compares the variations of the per capita food production across countries and time. Missing values in the food net per capita production value are interpolated using a linear trend. The series is then detrended by fitting a cubic spline by ordinary least squares to the series. The difference between the cubic fit and the acual values are then calculated. Lastly, the volatility for a specific year is defined as the standard deviation of these differences over the previous five years. The aggregates are computed applying the same methodology to the aggregates of the per capita food production variable.",
    "id": "FAO-21030-6127",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Constant International $ per person (3-year average)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "poverty;security of tenure (land);food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Socio-Economic & Institutional Context;Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21030-6127"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Percentage of population using at least basic drinking water services (%)",
    "description": "This indicator is part of the FAO Suite of Food Security Indicators (2017) as \"Utilization\". This indicator encompasses both people using basic water services as well as those using safely managed water services. Basic drinking water services is defined as drinking water from an improved source, provided collection time is not more than 30 minutes for a round trip. Improved water sources include piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, and packaged or delivered water.",
    "id": "FAO-21047-6121",
    "dataset": "FAO-FS",
    "measurement_unit": "Percentage (%)",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "poverty;water rights;food security;",
    "related_themes": "Socio-Economic & Institutional Context;Land & Food Security;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-21047-6121"
}