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Access to healthy food varies across socioeconomic circumstances such as primary livelihood, and access to shops, land, farms, and cities. We compared household food and nutrition security across households with food-producing and non-food-producing livelihoods, access to farms and non-farm greenspaces, and their location relative to farms, non-farm greenspaces, shops, and urban centres. We used household survey data and landscape spatial data from five sites across the socioeconomic gradient. Food security was higher in wealthier, more educated, urban households, and dietary diversity was highest in rural and agrarian households. Non-farm greenspaces such as communal and informal land, and backyard and communal gardens, were significant food sources. On-farm diversification, smallholder support, and provisioning of non-farm greenspaces can improve food and nutrition security. Agricultural extension and spatial planning policy should target smallholder capacitation, and development of fruit and vegetable gardens in both rural and urban areas, for sustainable, equitable, healthy food environments.
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Agricultural and Food Economics (AFE) is an international peer-reviewed and open access journal published on behalf of the Italian Society of Agricultural Economics. AFE welcomes research articles from economists, scholars and researchers from all over the world to publish problem-oriented and high-quality articles. AFE publishes only original articles from a wide variety of economic perspectives that address current and relevant issues related to the agricultural and food system. AFE publishes articles focused on applied analysis, the discussion of innovative results, and relevant policy and managerial implications. AFE seeks clearly written articles from experts in the field, to promote insightful understanding of the current trends in the agri-food system. Topics of specific interest to AFE include agricultural and food market analysis, agri-food firm management and marketing, organization of the agri-food chains, consumer behavior, food quality and safety issues, economics of nutrition and food security, food and health economics, agri-food policy and trade, sustainable rural development, natural and marine resource economics and land economics.
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