What are the nutritional indicators for? Niger after the 2005 food crisis

Abstract

After the food crisis of 2005, numerous nutritional surveys were carried out in Niger by Nigerian and international organisations. Such a practice is consistent with a more global revalorization of the nutritional indicators as food security tools across Sahelian Africa. This study questions the conditions of production and the political uses of these indicators. Seen f/om this angle, the nutritional indicators do not only appear to be technical tools intended to take the measure of a nutritional situation, but also as vectors of negotiations and antagonisms between institutions involved in food policies.