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This guidance document describes the steps to be followed to adapt an existing dietary intake tool to collect information on biodiverse foods, and also provides recommendations for the development…

This FAO publication provides guidance to help assess what type of data collection method is best suited to meet a given objective of a diet-related survey.

This document, in French, provides data for a listing of foods on weight per household measure, portion, or unit; ‘partie comestible’ (edible portion); ‘facteur de reduction’ (reduction factor); ‘…

This review serves as the basis to define gaps and needs in individual food consumption surveys worldwide and assists in defining priorities for resource allocation.  It also helps frame…

This paper aims to better understand the relative costs of informing food and nutrition policy-making using 24-hour recall survey data versus secondary analysis of Household Consumption and…

This FAO publication provides guidelines for the production, management and use of food composition data.

This FAO/INFOODS document provides guidelines for checking food composition data prior to the publication of a user table/database.

These FAO/INFOODS guidelines developed describe an approach to food matching and the steps required.

This paper presents the INFOODS guidelines for describing foods.