ABSTRACT
This is the sixth in a series of reports on hunger from the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program at Brown University. Three distinct but related concepts have been used to estimate the numbers of people affected by hunger and to analyze the global food situation: food shortage, food poverty, and food deprivation. They focus on different aspects of the phenomenon of hunger and different levels of aggregation involved in its study. The previous report (Uvin, 1994) presented a detailed and critical overview of a large set of recent indicators designed to measure the faces of hunger; it made substantial reference to the important work done by various UN agencies in preparation of the International Conference on Nutrition. This report will present a shorter, updated version, of the most relevant indicators, to the extent that new data are available.
