Urban food security, or its lack, is attracting growing interest in global policy debates. Glaringly missing in these conversations, however, are the voices of the urban poor. To fill this gap, grassroots community organizations, with decades-long experience collecting data on their own communities and taking action to improve conditions, decided to ask the urban poor in Cambodia and Nepal how they define and measure food security, what key challenges they face in the daily struggle to put food on the table and what actions might help. Their findings show that access to adequate diets is a major challenge for low-income communities in Asia, and that hunger is widespread, although with great variations and fluctuations between and within households. They also highlight the extraordinary resilience of urban poor women and their multiple strategies to stretch meagre budgets and make sure there is something to eat, even though sometimes this is not enough.

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城市贫困人口如何定义和衡量柬埔寨和尼泊尔的粮食安全

城市粮食安全或其缺乏，正在引起全球政策辩论的日益浓厚的兴趣。但是，这些对话中明显缺少城市穷人的声音。为了填补这一空白，草根社区组织凭借数十年的经验收集自己社区的数据并采取行动改善条件，决定询问柬埔寨和尼泊尔的城市贫民，他们如何定义和衡量粮食安全，他们面临哪些主要挑战在日常的争夺食物的斗争中，哪些行动可能会有所帮助。他们的发现表明，充足的饮食是亚洲低收入社区面临的主要挑战，尽管家庭内部和家庭之间存在很大的差异和波动，但饥饿仍在蔓延。