Are Determinants of Rural and Urban Food Security and Nutritional Status Different? Some Insights from Mozambique

Garrett, James Leo; Ruel, Marie T.

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(99)00091-1

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“…In Mozambique, various attempts to measure food security in empirical research have been made, such as: food expenditures as a proxy for food security by [1,21], food sufficiency [22], food consumption score (FCS), the coping strategy index (CSI) , and household dietary diversity score by [23], and the amount of calories obtained by each household as compared to its needs [2].…”

Section: Estimation Strategy 221 Defining and Measuring Food Securitymentioning

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“…In developing countries these are an important cause of child mortality and the governments in developing countries such as Mozambique have long struggled to defeat hunger [1]. In the context of Mozambique, this situation is surprising as it contradicts the economic growth that is being observed as a result of government efforts in implementing a set of development programs and policies including the National Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty.…”

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“…On the other hand, food security docummentation in Mozambique is mostly based on cross-sectional analysis [1,7,2,9], studies that have systematically used the existent panel data to assess the routes out of food insecurity which is of important interest for policymakers, development practitioners are scant. These limitations have motivate this paper, which aims to assess pathways out food insecurity identifying the major "push" and "pull" forces into or out of food insecurity with especial attention to landholdings.…”

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Food Security Dynamics and its Drivers in Rural Mozambique

Pitoro¹,

Chagomoka²

2017

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This paper uses regionally representative panel household survey data of 1,186 households in the high agriculture potential zone located in the Central and Northern regions to assess household food security trends and its drivers, specifically to determine the extent landholdings have influenced food security dynamics in rural Northern-Central Mozambique. The main finding of this study is that although food security level has been stable over the study period, the agricultural production, rural non-farm activities, establishment of food reserves, food availability, assets, and access to non-farm income opportunities and transportation have influenced food security level of the rural families. This suggests that investing in infrastructures such as public transportation and roads, minimizing agricultural production risks, promoting in education and livestock production aremore likely to have a larger effect on the extremely poor households than on the less poor when wage employment opportunities and proper training are available.

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Section: Estimation Strategy 221 Defining and Measuring Food Securitymentioning

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Food Security Dynamics and its Drivers in Rural Mozambique

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2017

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“…Throughout SSA the rural poor depend heavily on subsistence agriculture and, as such, are particularly susceptible to seasonal hunger in the months leading up to the annual harvest (Abdalla, Leonhäuser, Bauer, & Elamin, 2013; Barrett, 1996; Becquey et al, 2012). The effects of seasonality may also spill over to urban populations as food prices rise in response to increasing food scarcity (Chambers, Longhurst, & Pacey, 1981; Garrett & Ruel, 1999). …”

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“…But people living in urban areas can also experience seasonal hunger if availability declines and prices rise for purchased food in the months preceding the harvest (Garrett & Ruel, 1999). Because of multiple food sources and the consequent greater market access and food variety, however, urban seasonal hunger is less common than rural seasonal hunger (Barrett, 1996; Becquey et al, 2012).…”

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Relating Seasonal Hunger and Prevention and Coping Strategies: A Panel Analysis of Malawian Farm Households

Anderson

Reynolds

Merfeld

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The Journal of Development Studies

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Relative to chronic hunger, seasonal hunger in rural and urban areas of Africa is poorly understood. This paper examines the extent and potential correlates of seasonal hunger in Malawi using panel data from 2011–2013. We find that both urban and rural households report seasonal hunger in the pre-harvest months. Certain strategies to smooth consumption, including crop storage and livestock ownership, are associated with fewer months of hunger. In addition, we find that Malawian households that experience seasonal hunger harvest their crops earlier than average – a short-term coping mechanism that can reduce the crop’s yield and nutritional value, possibly perpetuating hunger.

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The role of precision agriculture in food security

Erickson

Fausti

2021

Agronomy Journal

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Precision agriculture (PA) is the application of information technology to better manage crop and livestock production, heralded as another tool to advance food security around the world. Precision agriculture has the potential to increase productivity, improve resource allocation for inputs such as pesticides, fertilizers, water, feed, and labor, provide for more stable production, and reduce agricultural production's environmental effect. But PA is an approach that can be very different depending on farm characteristics, such as crops and livestock raised, farm size, management, the farms' access to technical support, and the characteristics of the operator such as age and education. As a result, the adoption of PA has been slower and less uniform compared with some other agricultural innovations. Modern PA management systems are rarely implemented on small low-mechanization farms, which comprise much of the world's agricultural production, and these farms are common in areas of the world that are the least food secure. And like other farm technology, its benefits go primarily to its adopters and society as a whole, but those who do not, or cannot adopt are left at a relative disadvantage, which unfortunately at present are most farmers around the world. Food security's four main principles according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations are food availability, access, utilization, and stability. Precision agriculture has an aspect unlike its predecessor innovations that were primarily production related-because it is based on information, it has the capacity also to better inform and to allow adjustment all along the food supply/demand chain.

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Are Determinants of Rural and Urban Food Security and Nutritional Status Different? Some Insights from Mozambique

Cited by 257 publications

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Food Security Dynamics and its Drivers in Rural Mozambique

Food Security Dynamics and its Drivers in Rural Mozambique

Relating Seasonal Hunger and Prevention and Coping Strategies: A Panel Analysis of Malawian Farm Households

The role of precision agriculture in food security

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