Estimates of global food insecurity play an important role in informing policy decisions, such as those surrounding COVID-19 (Balistreri et al., 2022) or the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy (Beckman et al., 2020). Yet, despite the important role they play, issues of inconsistencies and disparities in the estimates provided by food security indicators have been identified (Barrett, 2010; De Haen et al., 2011; Henry, 2005; Poudel & Gopinath, 2021; Svedberg, 2002; Swaminathan et al., 2018, among others).
