A territorial approach to food insecurity factors using open access data

The work presented here complements the traditional measurement of food aid beneficiary numbers by proposing an index to identify territories with presumed food insecurity.

This index is based on open access statistical data. While it is therefore incomplete, it gives some indication of the various forms of precarity observed in territories.

In the Hérault département in France, the index shows that municipalities with multiple factors of food insecurity are mostly located in the rural hinterland. They are often far away from food aid organizations, which tend to be concentrated in urban areas.