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Food Consumption Score

The Food Consumption Score (FCS) is the World Food Programme's standard household food-security indicator, defined in its 2008 VAM technical guidance. It is a weighted measure of dietary diversity and frequency: enumerators record how many days in the past week a household consumed each of a set of standard food groups, those frequencies are capped at seven and multiplied by weights reflecting each group's nutritional importance, and the weighted sum yields a score from zero to 112. Households are then classified as having poor, borderline, or acceptable food consumption using standard thresholds. Validated against caloric and other food-security measures by Wiesmann and colleagues at IFPRI, the FCS is widely used in emergency and development food-security assessments because it is fast, cheap, and proxies both diet quality and adequacy.

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  1. World Food Programme (2008). Food Consumption Analysis: Calculation and Use of the Food Consumption Score in Food Security Analysis. Rome: WFP Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) Technical Guidance Sheet. link
  2. Wiesmann, D., Bassett, L., Benson, T., & Hoddinott, J. (2009). Validation of the World Food Programme's Food Consumption Score and Alternative Indicators of Household Food Security. IFPRI Discussion Paper 870. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. link

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ScholarGate. (2026, June 23). Food Consumption Score (WFP FCS). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/hr/food-agriculture-studies/food-consumption-score

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ScholarGateFood Consumption Score (Food Consumption Score (WFP FCS)). Preuzeto 2026-06-24 s https://scholargate.app/hr/food-agriculture-studies/food-consumption-score · Skup podataka: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20539026