Migration and food consumption patterns in Ghana

Karamba, Wendy; Quiñones, Esteban J.; Winters, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.11.003

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“…In particular, Adam et al (2008) found that receipt of remittances from outside Ghana could reduce poverty by 88.1 per cent while internal remittances could reduce poverty by 69.4 per cent. This explanation is corroborated in Karamba et al (2011) andQuartey (2006), who found that although remittances in Ghana may contribute to improving household welfare they are unable to completely remove economic shock and insecurity. First, receipt of remittances that is considered a survival strategy as we have in the Upper West Region could be associated with poor households.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…At the household level, studies have suggested that remittances contribute to reducing poverty (Adaawen and Owusu, 2013;Fransen and Mazzucato, 2014). Although reduction in poverty could mean increases in household consumption, a recent study in Ghana suggests that remittances have a minimal impact on food consumption (Karamba, Quiñones, and Winters, 2011), indicating a more complex relationship between remittance receipt and household food security in different contexts. For instance, Adams Jr.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Residential Remittances and Food Security in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Atuoye

Kuuire

Kangmennaang

et al. 2017

International Migration

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In recent years, out migration from the Upper West Region to the southern belt of Ghana for farming has become commonplace. The natural question that has arisen is: what is the potential impact of remittances from this migration pattern on food security in the region? Using multivariate ordered logistic regression this study assesses the linkage between remittances and household food security (derived using the HFIAS) among urban and rural households (n=1,438) in the region. The findings show that urban remittance‐receiving households and rural remittance and non‐remittance receiving households were more likely (OR=2.44, p<0.05; OR=2.46, p<0.001; and OR=1.49, p<0.1, respectively) to report being more severely food‐insecure than urban non‐remittance receiving households. The findings demonstrate that household strategies such as migration and remittances on their own are not sufficient to ameliorate the precarious food insecurity situation of the region. The study calls for development of alternative livelihoods in the region.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Residential Remittances and Food Security in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Atuoye

Kuuire

Kangmennaang

et al. 2017

International Migration

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“…Nutritional diversity is not a health marker on its own right but serves as a clearly interpretable input into health production that is closely related to income. Positive investment into nutrition as a consequence of migration was for example found recently by Nguyen and Winters (2011) for Vietnam whereas Karamba et al (2011) find no significant effects in Ghana. Neither of these papers however focuses on or even mention elderly people.…”

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Alone but better off? Adult child migration and health of elderly parents in Moldova

Böhme

Persian²,

Stöhr

2015

Journal of Health Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractIncreasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This paper investigates the effect of migration on various dimensions of elderly health using unique data from Moldova, which has one of the highest emigration rates in the world. We find positive migration effects on the body mass index (BMI), mobility and self-reported health. No effects are found on depression and cognitive capacity. We trace these positive outcomes to an income effect which leads to improvements in diet and a reallocation of time use from subsistence farming to leisure and sleep. These positive effects seem to compensate the elderly for decreasing social contact with their migrant family members.

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“…In fact, some define food security as the success of local livelihoods in guaranteeing access to sufficient food at the household level (Devereux and Maxwell 2001). The focus of household-level food security research is to study the strategies used by people to achieve food security, whether it be migration (Karamba et al 2011), income diversification (Babatunde and Qaim 2010), or the use of technology (Burney and Naylor 2012), for example. Food security can be seen as one dimension of a broader livelihood strategy (Maxwell and Smith 1992).…”

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Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

2015

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Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Multiple biophysical, political, and socioeconomic stresses interact to increase the region's susceptibility and constrain its adaptive capacity. Climate change is commonly recognized as a major issue likely to have negative consequences on food security and livelihoods in the region. This paper reviews three bodies of scholarship that have evolved somewhat separately, yet are inherently interconnected: climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, food security, and sustainable livelihoods. The paper develops a conceptualization of the relationships among the three themes and shows how food security's vulnerabilities are related to multiple stresses and adaptive capacities, reflecting access to assets. Food security represents one of several livelihood outcomes. The framework shows how several research paradigms relate to the issue of food security and climate change and provides a guide for empirical investigations. Recognizing these interconnections can help in the development of more effective policies and programs. The framework is applied here to synthesize findings from an array of studies in subSaharan Africa dealing with vulnerability to climate change, food security, and livelihoods.

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Migration and food consumption patterns in Ghana

Cited by 80 publications

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Residential Remittances and Food Security in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Residential Remittances and Food Security in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Alone but better off? Adult child migration and health of elderly parents in Moldova

Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

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