Getting the Scale Right

This paper introduces broad concepts of vulnerability, food security and famine. It argues that the concepts and theories driving development and implementation of vulnerability assessment tools are related to their utility. The review concludes that socio-geographic scale is a key issue, and challenge. It analyses three vulnerability assessment (VA) methods, using Ethiopia as a case study. Facing the challenges of vulnerability assessment and early warning requires providing accurate information at the required scale, useful for multiple decision-makers within realistic institutional capacities

Business · Cartography · Computer security · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Famine · Geography · Political science · Risk analysis (engineering · Scale (ratio · Vulnerability (computing · Vulnerability assessment · Warning system · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology

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