Demand for food diversity in the case of Kosovo

From the lens of food accessibility and dietary quality: Gaining insights from urban food security in Nigeria

“…The quantile estimates revealed that income and rising urbanization had positive and significant influence on consumption of diverse diets for households in the lowest quantile. It implies that household consumption of nutrient-based foods would increase as income and infrastructural facilities improve (Qineti et al, 2017). Also, an additional member to household size brings about significant reduction on the extent of diet diversity.…”

“…Consuming diverse diets have been linked to rising urbanization, with subsequent changes in the food consumption pattern in terms of quantity and composition. Due to the increase in diversity as income level improves, which could be linked with rising urbanization (Qineti, et al, 2017;Seto and Ramankutty, 2016), we empirically examined the effect of urbanization on household diet diversity. This was done by specifying an estimating equation where household diet diversity is explained by household urban effect, income and other household sociodemographic characteristics using quantile regression.…”

“…Several studies have shown that both food access (Iorlamen et al, 2014;Korir et al, 2018;Leroy et al, 2015) and dietary diversity (Akerele and Odeniyi, 2015;Liu et al, 2014;Qineti et al, 2017) are appropriate in predicting the level of food security. However, some studies have combined the food security measures (Gentilini and Webb, 2008;Maxwell et al, 2013;Ogundari, 2017;Smith and Subandoro, 2007).…”