Accurately tracking vulnerability is more complex in densely populated towns and cities, particularly in informal neighbourhoods such as slums, than it is in rural areas. Aid agencies and donors have therefore been slow to take on the challenge, inadvertently creating a rural-urban divide.
"Because we do not have the information, we do not intervene and we allow people to live in conditions that we would consider unacceptable in rural settings," said Marie Sardier, Action against Hunger's food security and livelihoods adviser in Paris.
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