more specifically definitions and measures of food insecurity are beginning to move away from focusing on siloes of access availability and utilization and consider factors such as food sufficiency nutrient adequacy cultural acceptability safety and certainty and stability of foods coates accordingly using indices or scales has become a more common approach to capturing these different dimensions leading to a more comprehensive understanding of food insecurity in the global sdg indicators framework it has been agreed to use the food insecurity experience scale fies to estimate the prevalence of moderate and severe food insecurity