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

Anderson, C. Leigh; Reynolds, Travis; Merfeld, Joshua D.; Biscaye, Pierre E.

doi:10.1080/00220388.2017.1371296

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“…In the context of a changing climate, the stability of food availability, access, and utilization over time is an aspect of food security that is increasingly challenged in subsistence agricultural systems [1,6,7]. Across Central America, the 'lean' or 'hungry' season has been documented as a time in which food availability and access among many households reliant on subsistence agriculture is insufficient [1,6,8,9].…”

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Factors Associated with Seasonal Food Insecurity among Small-Scale Subsistence Farming Households in Rural Honduras

Dodd

Cerna

Orellana

et al. 2020

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In the context of climate change, a nutritional transition, and increased pressures to migrate internally and internationally, this study examined the relationship between seasonal food insecurity and demographic, socioeconomic, and agricultural production factors among small-scale subsistence farmers in rural northern Honduras. Anchored by a partnership with the Fundación para la Investigación Participativa con Agricultores de Honduras (FIPAH) and the Yorito Municipal Health Centre, a cross-sectional household survey was administered in Yorito, Honduras, in July 2014. The study population included 1263 individuals from 248 households across 22 rural communities. A multivariate mixed effects negative binomial regression model was built to investigate the relationship between the self-reported number of months without food availability and access from subsistence agriculture in the previous year (August 2013–July 2014) and demographic, socioeconomic, and agricultural production variables. This study found a lengthier ‘lean season’ among surveyed household than previously documented in Honduras. Overall, 62.2% (95% confidence interval (CI): [59.52, 64.87]) of individuals experienced at least four months of insufficient food in the previous year. Individuals from poorer and larger households were more likely to experience insufficient food compared to individuals from wealthier and smaller households. Additionally, individuals from households that produced both maize and beans were less likely to have insufficient food compared to individuals from households that did not grow these staple crops (prevalence ratio (PR) = 0.83; 95% CI: [0.69, 0.99]). Receiving remittances from a migrant family member did not significantly reduce the prevalence of having insufficient food. As unpredictable crop yields linked to climate change and extreme weather events are projected to negatively influence the food security and nutrition outcomes of rural populations, it is important to understand how demographic, socioeconomic, and agricultural production factors may modify the ability of individuals and households engaged in small-scale subsistence agriculture to respond to adverse shocks.

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Factors Associated with Seasonal Food Insecurity among Small-Scale Subsistence Farming Households in Rural Honduras

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“…The relationship between polygyny and individual children's health outcomes most likely operates through efficiency channels, while at the same time depending on characteristics of the child's mother. Polygyny is generally negatively correlated with female bargaining power; co-wives in polygynous households wield less bargaining power than their monogamous counterparts because the value of individual wives' assets in the latter, on which bargaining power may be based, is smaller, given that multiple wives contribute to household welfare (Anderson et al, 2016).…”

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“…Some studies find a positive association between polygyny and household welfare (Anderson, Reynolds, Biscaye, Greenaway & Merfeld, 2016;Akresh, Chen & Moore,2012). Akresh et al (2012) use a game theoretic approach and show that there is greater efficiency in agricultural production in polygamous households in West Africa, compared to monogamous households, largely attributable to co-operation among co-wives in this setting.…”

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Food Insecurity and Family Structure in Nigeria

Owoo

2018

SSRN Journal

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A B S T R A C TThe article explores a series of questions and hypotheses related to polygynous family structures and both household and individual-level food security outcomes, using the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey data from Nigeria, collected in 2011, 2013 model is used to examine the relationship between polygyny and household-level food security, and the degree to which it is mediated by household wealth, size, and livelihood. A Household Fixed Effect model is employed to explore whether a mother's status as monogamous versus polygynous relates systematically to her child's health, and also whether child outcomes of senior wives are better than outcomes of junior wives within polygynous households. At the household level, polygynous households are found to have better food security outcomes than monogamous households with differences in household composition and agricultural livelihood as potential explanatory mechanisms. At the individual level, however, children of polygynous mothers have worse nutrition outcomes than children of monogamous mothers in the long run. Within polygynous households, children of junior wives appear to have better nutritional outcomes in the long run, compared to children of more senior wives.

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“…However, the interval is still wide enough to account for potential lags in the effects of climate variability on food security, disease, and, therefore, child malnutrition (Christian & Dillon 2018). For example, temperature-induced declines in crop yields may not result in food insecurity until many months after harvests, when households face declining food supplies earlier in the year than usual (i.e., a lengthened "hungry season", Anderson et al 2018;Grace et al 2017;Miller 2017). The cost of accounting for such lags is that our exposure interval will not capture cases in which environmental conditions early in the period lead to immediate but temporary reductions in weight.…”

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“…In addition to the control variables described above, we include a series of fixed effects to control for spatial and temporal confounders. 8 Survey-month fixed effects control for all variation across survey months that is common across the sample and thereby help to account for seasonality in nutritional outcomes that is commonly observed across sub-Saharan Africa (Anderson et al 2018;Christian & Dillon 2018;Grace et al 2017;Miller 2017). Survey-decade fixed effects control for all decade-on-decade changes across the entire sample and thereby help to reduce the risk that the analysis is confounded by unobserved factors correlated with the secular changes in temperature, precipitation, and WFH over the study period.…”

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Climate Variability and Child Nutrition: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

Thiede¹,

Strube²

2019

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Climatic variability has been shown to affect many underlying determinants of child malnutrition, including food availability, access, and utilization. Evidence of the effects of changing temperatures and precipitation on children’s nutritional status nonetheless remains limited. Research addressing this knowledge gap is merited given the short- and long-run consequences of malnutrition. We contribute to the literature on this issue by estimating the effects of temperature and precipitation anomalies on the weight of children ages 0-59 months across 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Results from fixed-effects linear regression models show that precipitation anomalies have significant and non-linear effects on child weight, with sharp increases in thinness under dry conditions and minimal benefits to above-average precipitation. The negative effects of dry spells on acute malnutrition are significantly amplified by concurrent exposure to above-average temperatures. Tests for differences in the effects of climatic variability across sub-populations show statistically significant differences according to maternal education and children’s residence in rural or urban areas. Substantively, however, these differences are a matter of degree rather than kind. Our results underscore the vulnerability of young children to climatic variability and its second-order economic and epidemiological effects. The study also highlights the corresponding need to design and assess interventions to effectively mitigate these impacts.

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

Cited by 27 publications

References 58 publications

Factors Associated with Seasonal Food Insecurity among Small-Scale Subsistence Farming Households in Rural Honduras

Factors Associated with Seasonal Food Insecurity among Small-Scale Subsistence Farming Households in Rural Honduras

Food Insecurity and Family Structure in Nigeria

Climate Variability and Child Nutrition: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

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