The impact of remittances on household food security: A micro perspective from Tigray, Ethiopia

Abadi, Nigussie; Techane, Ataklti; Tesfay, Girmay; Maxwell, Daniel; Vaitla, Bapu

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2018/482-7

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“…More specifically, in any one household, if one more person migrates, the risk of the household being in a situation of extreme vulnerability is reduced by 2.4 per cent. Identical results from the study of Abadi et al () point out a positive and statistically significant impact of remittances on household food security. Authors use a sample of 300 farm households from the Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia to test how remittances can ensure food security and reduce poverty in rural zones and they find that remittance‐receiving households are better endowed with food security compared to non‐receiving households.…”

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confidence: 63%

Remittances and Food Security in African Countries

Mabrouk¹,

Mekni²

2018

African Development Review

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Over the past decade, the amount of migrant remittances received by developing countries has increased rapidly.Several studies have analysed the impacts on growth, investment, education, and health. However, the effect on food security has not received much attention. This paper contributes to the literature by exploring the linkage between food security and international remittances using panel data during the period of 1990-2013 in African countries. The study employs an econometric model to test the impact of remittances on food security through four channels: availability, access, utilization and stability. Results show a positive link for access, stability and utilization dimensions but a negative link for availability. Relationship between received remittances and the enhancement of food security seems to be mixed.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 63%

Remittances and Food Security in African Countries

Mabrouk¹,

Mekni²

2018

African Development Review

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“…Outside Latin America, Babatunde and Martinetti (2011) found that remittance income contributed to improved calorie supply at the household level in Nigeria, but had no significant impact on diet quality, micronutrient supply, and child nutritional status, while a recent study in Tanzania using an instrumental variable approach (Isotto and Kraybill 2017) showed that remittances increased the intake of nutrients such as proteins, vitamin A, vitamin C and calcium. In Ethiopia, Abadi et al (2013) found that migration and remittances improved food security by allowing households to consume better quality and greater quantities of food, as well as a reduction in the frequency and severity of harmful coping strategies, such as reducing the quantity or quality of food consumed.…”

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confidence: 99%

Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?

Waidler

Devereux

2019

Food Sec.

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Large numbers of South Africans receive social grants (public transfers) or remittances (private transfers), and yet one in four South Africans is food insecure. The purpose of this paper is to address two questions: do social grants and remittances improve food security and nutritional outcomes? If so, do these impacts differ between public and private transfers? Drawing on the National Income Dynamic Survey (NIDS), South Africa's first nationally representative survey that follows more than 28,000 individuals over time, we found significant and positive impacts of the Older Person's Grant and of remittances on the dietary diversity index, but not of the Child Support Grant. Moreover, we found no effect on food expenditure or on anthropometry (BMI) by the Older Person's Grant, or remittances. However, some positive effects were found on children's BMI from the Child Support Grant. We discuss why we observe different effects from different transfers, as well as giving several reasons why income transfers are failing to close the nutritional deficits in South Africa.

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“…Using a sample of 301 farmer's households from Tigray Regional State in Ethiopia, Abadi, et.al [38] studied the impact of remittances on farm household's food security status and found that remittances reduce the incidence of survival strategies. Further, households with remittances were found to have lower anxiety about insufficient food; have the capacity to acquire quality food and lower experience of inadequate quantity of food consumption than those without remittance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Do Diaspora Remittances Guarantee Food Security in Nigeria?

Onime

Kalu

2021

JEMT

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The burgeoning remittances into Nigeria and their effect on the economy have received renewed attention in recent times. Literature has suggested the existence of a relationship between remittances and food security. The extent to which this is true for Nigeria is uncertain. Using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), this study examined the link between remittances and food security using secondary data for the period 1980 to 2018. Findings revealed a robust long and short-run relationship between remittances and food security. In the short-run, a positive and significant relationship was found between remittances and food security in the current period such that a 1 per cent increase in remittances was associated with a 5.08 per cent improvement in food security. In the long-run, a cointegrated relationship was observed as the error correction term depicting this relationship was well-behaved, properly signed and significant indicating that any previous period deviation in long-run equilibrium is corrected in the current period at an adjustment speed of 28.8 per cent. In addition, the Granger test suggests a unidirectional causality running from remittances to food security such that past values of remittances determined food security during the period investigated. Consequent to the findings, the study recommended with a caveat, the design and proper implementation of a diaspora and remittances policy to cater for the welfare of Nigerians in the diaspora to improve remittance receipts and by implication, food security. However, since remittances alone cannot guarantee food security in Nigeria, this study further recommends a holistic and multidimensional approach to address the food security challenge and close the food deficit gap.

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The impact of remittances on household food security: A micro perspective from Tigray, Ethiopia

Abstract: This research study is released in connection with the WIDER Development Conference on 'Migration and mobility-new frontiers for research and policy', jointly organized with the

Cited by 26 publications

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Remittances and Food Security in African Countries

Remittances and Food Security in African Countries

Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?

Do Diaspora Remittances Guarantee Food Security in Nigeria?

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