This guide describes methods and tools with which to undertake a right to adequate food assessment. The guide attempts to be practical, and to provide the most relevant methodological and operational information. The material contained in the guide draws on lessons learned from FAO-supported country case studies on the right to adequate food, which were prepared as part of the background documentation for the Intergovernmental Working Group. The way the methods presented in this guide are actually applied depends on the country situation and the specific purpose of the assessment.