Ten years after the 2002 International Scientific Symposium on the Measurement of Food Deprivation and Undernutrition, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is organizing a new symposium to examine emerging trends in measuring Food and Nutrition Security Information and linking it more closely to decision-making.

The Symposium will be an opportunity to:

• review recent advances in measuring food and nutrition security at individual and household levels;
• discuss the importance of information in decision making to improve food and nutrition security;
• identify ways to promote synergies across disciplines and sectors to improve the generation and use of food and nutrition information; and
• determine future research and analysis needs  for  providing decision makers with valid information and  evidence for sound policy formulation, programming and impact evaluation.