difficulties of defining food security in developing countries

It is interesting that food and food security is not to be seen generally as what's edible but also in terms of the nutritional value, and what people in a defined area consume for energy, growth and sustenance by drawing on an area's natural endowments or available resources.Whilst adapting these measurement methods for use in other countries may be as simple as translating the questions in the module into another language certain factors that affect access to food such as gender, age, and other sociocultural issues need to be taken into consideration

compiling data for analysis of food security can be difficult in a situation where household composition is variable especially in a communitarian environment where adult members of a household may have strong incentives not to reveal the full extent of their individual earning power or assets
In Burkina Faso Gender Inequality is strongly related to food insecurity since women are responsible for a lot of the food grown, however these women are also the main victims of HIV/AIDS which reduces their productivity thus indirectly influencing food security.
With these issues in mind I hope to incorporate some of these issues of gender and obstacles to food access in my presentation on food security in Burkina Faso