How the urban poor define and measure food security in Cambodia and Nepal 2017-2019

The data in this collection include transcripts of group discussions held in two urban centres in each country - the capital city and a secondary town - and the questionnaire surveys conducted with small samples (80 respondents in Cambodia, 100 in Nepal) to validate the key findings from the group discussions. Urban food security, or the lack of it, is attracting growing interest in policy debates. Glaringly missing in these conversations, however, are the voices of the urban poor. To fill this gap, grassroots community organisations affiliated to the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) with decades-long experience in collecting data on their own communities 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.