The objective of this chapter is twofold: (a) to clarify the meaning of the resilience concept as applied to food insecurity, critically analysing its relationships with other competing and/or complementary concepts and the potential benefits of its use; and (b) to propose a methodology for measuring household resilience to food insecurity, as well as to discusses and highlights data needs so that future surveys can eventually make the required data available. The chapter describes the concept of resilience and its relationship to food security related concepts. It sets out the framework for measuring the different dimensions of resilience to food security, and presents methodological approaches for measuring it at household level. The chapter reports on how the proposed methodology was implemented using data from the 11th Palestinian Public Perception Survey. It validates the model through the classification and regression tree (CART) methodology, and summarizes the main findings and policy implications.

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