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	Resilience Measurement for Development	Food Security Measurement
Field	Development Studies	Development Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2016	2013
Originator	FAO (RIMA); Christophe Béné and colleagues (conceptual framing)	FAO (FIES); FANTA (HFIAS); World Food Programme (FCS)
Type	Latent-variable framework for measuring development resilience	Experiential and dietary food-security survey
Seminal source	FAO (2016). RIMA-II: Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis-II. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.	Ballard, T. J., Kepple, A. W., & Cafiero, C. (2013). The Food Insecurity Experience Scale: Development of a Global Standard for Monitoring Hunger Worldwide. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Aliases	RIMA, Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis, Resilience Capacity Index, Development Resilience Measurement	Food insecurity measurement, FIES, HFIAS, Food Consumption Score
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Summary	Resilience Measurement and Analysis is a family of methods for quantifying the ability of households and communities to withstand, recover from, and adapt to shocks and stresses while maintaining or improving their well-being, especially food security. Exemplified by the FAO's Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA-II) and informed by Béné and colleagues' critical conceptual work, it treats resilience as a latent capacity inferred from observable assets, access to services, and adaptive behaviours, estimated statistically and tracked over time to inform and evaluate resilience-building interventions.	Food security measurement comprises a family of survey-based instruments that capture households' or individuals' access to adequate food, distinct from the U.S. USDA Household Food Security Survey Module. The dominant tools — the FAO Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), the World Food Programme's Food Consumption Score (FCS), and dietary-diversity scores such as the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) — measure either the lived experience of food insecurity or the quantity and quality of the diet, providing the indicators used for global hunger monitoring and humanitarian targeting.