Hugo Melagr-Quiñonez /macdonald/taxonomy/term/1203/all en How do you measure hunger? /macdonald/channels/news/how-do-you-measure-hunger-263077 <p>How do you measure hunger? If anyone can tell you, it’s <strong>Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez</strong>, Margaret Gilliam Faculty Scholar in Food Security and Director of the ϲ Institute for Global Food Security.</p> <p>“Hunger and food insecurity are very complex phenomena affecting people and countries in different ways,” says Melgar-Quiñonez. “In order to estimate how many people are undernourished or food insecure, we needed diverse methods of quantifying hunger.”</p> Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:12:48 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52501 at /macdonald