ELCSA, a Survey for Measuring Household Food Security, Reveals an Extremely High Prevalence of Food Insecurity in the Montaña de la Flor and Santa Maria Regions of Honduras

ELCSA, the Latin American and Caribbean Household Food Security Measurement Scale, is a survey that was used to determine food security status in Santa Maria and Montana de la Flor regions of Honduras. Households with children aged 6 to 60 months were randomly selected to participate. The food security level was determined using the positive responses to the 15 question survey: no positive responses defined food-secure, 1 to 5 defined food-insecure, 6 to 10 defined very food-insecure, and 11 to 15 defined severely food-insecure household. Within the 140 participating households, 10.7% were food-secure; 13.6% food-insecure, 22.9% very food-insecure, and 52.9% severely food-insecure households.