Real-time, fine-grained monitoring of food security is essential for enabling
timely and targeted interventions, thereby supporting the global goal of
achieving zero hunger - a key objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development. Mobile phone surveys provide a scalable and temporally rich data
source that can be tailored to different administrative levels. However, due to
cost and operational constraints, maintaining high-frequency data collection
while ensuring representativeness at lower administrative levels is often
infeasible. We propose a joint multilevel regression and poststratification
(jMRP) approach that combines high-frequency and up-to-date mobile phone survey
data, designed for higher administrative levels, with an annual face-to-face
survey representative at lower levels to produce reliable food security
estimates at spatially and temporally finer scales than those originally
targeted by the surveys. This methodology accounts for systematic differences
in survey responses due to modality and socio-economic characteristics,
reducing both sampling and modality bias. We implement the approach in a fully
Bayesian manner to quantify uncertainty. We demonstrate the effectiveness of
our method using data from Zimbabwe, thus offering a cost-effective solution
for real-time monitoring and strengthening decision-making in
resource-constrained settings.