Determinants of household food insecurity in Mexico

Magaña‐Lemus, David; Ishdorj, Ariun; Rosson, C. Parr; Lara-Álvarez, Jorge

doi:10.1186/s40100-016-0054-9

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“…Table shows the descriptive statistics for food‐secure and food‐insecure households. In accordance with the work published by Magana‐Lemus, Ishdorj, Rosson, and Lara‐Álvarez (), households that are more likely to be food insecure include those that have less‐educated household heads, speak the language of native people groups, have more children, and are of rural and lower‐income households. In contrast, food‐secure households spend more on food in general and spend more on FAFH as a proportion of the total food expenditure (18.9% compared with 9.9%).…”

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Effect of food insecurity on food purchases at home

Silva

Hausen²,

Magaña‐Lemus

2018

Journal of Public Affairs

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Previous research has established a relationship between income and food security. In this article, we examine the effect of food security on food purchases, specifically on five food‐at‐home groups. Using a set of Tobit models, and after controlling for a set of confounding factors, we show that food security perception leads to the purchase of fruit and vegetables, meats and eggs, and dairy products while decreasing the purchase of fat and carbohydrates. However, we cannot be certain of the actual nutritional effect.

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confidence: 75%

Effect of food insecurity on food purchases at home

Silva

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Magaña‐Lemus

2018

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…Extant literature has analyzed the role played in determining food security by household factors such as farm size (Aidoo, Mensah, & Tuffour, 2013; Muche, Endalew, & Koricho, 2014), access to credit (Gebre, 2012), income (Matchaya & Chilonda, 2012), and education of the household head (Magana‐Lemus, Ishdorj, Rosson, & Lara‐Álvarez, 2016). Smith, Rabbitt, and Coleman‐Jensen (2017) report low levels of education, weak social networks, less social capital, low household income, and unemployment to be the five characteristics associated with the largest increase in the likelihood of experiencing food insecurity around the world.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia

Mughal¹,

Sers²

2020

Review Development Economics

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South Asia remains one of the major strongholds of hunger in the world, despite the fact that, following the Green Revolution, cereal production in the countries of this region tripled during the second half of the 20th century. This study examines the role played by this increase in cereal production in improving the region's nutrition and food security situation. We study the association between the different aspects of food security and cereal production in South Asia that have prevailed over the past 25 years. We find a beneficial role of the production and yield of cereals in lowering the extent of undernourishment. A 1% increase in cereal production and yield is associated with up to 0.84% decrease in the prevalence of undernourishment. The impact is significant over a period of 3 years. The positive effect is particularly evident in the case of rice and maize production. An improvement is seen in the aspects of availability, stability, and utilization of food security but not in the aspect of access. These findings are robust to alternative specifications and techniques. The results explain, in part, the means by which South Asian nations have managed to stall relative increases in extreme hunger and food insecurity.

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“…determinants of household food security. This approach of examining the role of demographic determinants other than food prices in explaining food security have been widely adopted in food security literature due to lack of data on food prices in the survey used for the respective studies (see Magana-Lemus et al 2016;Rose and Chariton 2002;Obayelu 2013). The empirical specification of the reduced form of Eq.…”

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Categorizing households into different food security states in Nigeria: the socio-economic and demographic determinants

Ogundari

2017

Agric Econ

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The literature reiterates the need to employ indicators that reflect the multidimensional nature of food security. In a quest to capture the multidimensional nature of food security, this study uses a novel ideal that harmonizes two food security indicators (food expenditure (FOOD exp ) and dietary diversity score (DDS)) to categorize households into different levels of food security states in Nigeria. In addition, the study also examined factors that influence the probability of households being in different levels of food security states in the country. Our estimates show that about 66 and 60% of the households in the sample were food secure based on a single indicator such as FOOD exp and DDS, respectively. However, by harmonizing the two indicators, results reveal that about 42% of the households are actually food secure. The implication of this is that about 24 and 18% of the households are transitory food insecure. Results also suggest that the use of a single indicator may wrongly classify households as food secure instead of categorizing them as transitory food insecure. Furthermore, the empirical results show that households that consume only home produced food have high probabilities of being food insecure, while households that consume only market-purchased food are less likely to be food insecure. The implication of this finding is that harmonization of food security indicators helps identify households with different nature of food (in) security problems that require different types of policy interventions most especially in Nigeria. The results of the empirical analysis also imply that market-based intervention policies that facilitate households' access at all time to healthy foods of their choice should be given priority. This gives the household opportunity to benefit from greater varieties of food items offered by the market.

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Determinants of household food insecurity in Mexico

Cited by 80 publications

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Effect of food insecurity on food purchases at home

Effect of food insecurity on food purchases at home

Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia

Categorizing households into different food security states in Nigeria: the socio-economic and demographic determinants

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