Beside using the AE indicator the following conventional indicators of food security can be used:
- Height-for-age: Measures stunting due to chronic malnutrition. Percent of stunted children has
to be determined.
- Weight-for-height: Measures wasting due to acute/transient malnutrition. Percent of children
with wasted weights has to be determined.
- Percent of population who are unable to get 2 meals a day (and 3 meals a day for children).
The recommended meals are 3 per day for adults and 5 for children aged 6 to 59 months. If
they eat less than the above meals, it is a sign of severe food insecurity.
- Number of days serving luxury foods (as determined by the community in the DSS area)
- Number of days serving with inferior foods (as determined by the community in the DSS area)
- Percent of households storing food
- Average acreage of cultivated land per household
- Percent of agricultural households using: hand hoe, oxen drawn implements, and tractor
- Land allocation for different crops.
- The area purposely provided with water, including land irrigated by controlled flooding.
- Cereals produced: Cereals include rice, maize, millet. Production data on cereals relate to
crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food,
feed, or silage and those used for grazing are excluded.
- Use of improved technology e.g. fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides.
- Frequency of purchase of staple foods per household
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