ABSTRACT
National food insecurity early warning systems and food policy interventions need reliable information concerning the classification of food insecurity. The aim of this paper was to produce an acute food insecurity classification in Mozambique, by: i) analyzing food insecurity indicators individually; ii) comparing it with a new integrated analysis of survey-based indicators called the “Matrix Analysis.” The Matrix results show more severe classifications than the single indicators for the analyzed districts. The matrix novelty consists on a cross-tabulation of all indicators, allowing a less subjective analysis. Further research is needed on how the Matrix approach could complement national classification systems.
Acknowledgments
This study took place in the framework of the project FEMOZFootnote6 (“Strengthening the Resilience of Food Environments in the Context of Disaster Risk and Climate Change in MOZambique”). The project and the present paper were supported by funds of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) based on a decision of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany via the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) under the innovation support programme.”
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Supplementary material
Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2024.2316590
Notes
2. Consumption matrix results for all districts are summarized in . Detailed Tables with respective standard errors can be provided on request. In this paper only the consumption/livelihood strategies matrices are presented in the Supplementary Materials.
3. The classifications from SETSAN/IPC are accessible directly from the IPC website: https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1155342/?iso3=MOZ