S. Irudaya Rajan , Arokkiaraj Heller , Abraham John
{"title":"Food security among female migrant workers in Kerala returning from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries","authors":"S. Irudaya Rajan , Arokkiaraj Heller , Abraham John","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100773","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper seeks to enhance our comprehension of the interplay between COVID-19, international labour migration, and food security. The primary objective is to discern food security characteristics among female migrant workers (FMWs) returning to Kerala from Gulf countries, particularly under heightened social and economic uncertainties shared with male migrant workers (MMWs). This study conducted in the state of Kerala, India, examines the food security perceptions of Gulf migrants using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS). Samples of both returning FMWs and MMWs were identified through snowball sampling from the latest Kerala Migrant Survey (KMS) 2018 and Return migrant survey 2021. Oversampling was conducted for return FMWs, otherwise only constituting 20 per cent of the random sample. A total of 1154 samples were collected across all 14 districts in Kerala. The analysis indicates that food insecurity was not prevalent among the majority but was significant among a minority of surveyed migrant workers. The results also show that while FMWs experience food insecurity as a lack of access to food variety, MMWs experience food insecurity in the access to food varieties and the absolute quantity of food.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100773"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141292131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla , Rosana Salles-Costa , Ana Maria Segall-Corrêa
{"title":"Food insecurity experience-based scales and food security governance: A case study from Brazil","authors":"Rafael Pérez-Escamilla , Rosana Salles-Costa , Ana Maria Segall-Corrêa","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100766","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The well validated Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale (EBIA) documented major reductions in moderate/severe food insecurity (FI) between 2004 and 2014 likely because of economic growth in the context of equitable social and economic policies. Coinciding with a change in political administrations, in about 2015, FI rates started to rapidly rebound, with the FI crisis becoming substantially worst during the COVID-19 pandemic because equitable social policies were weakened or eliminated during the economic recession and political crisis preceding it. Evidence suggests that EBIA has helped inform food security governance in Brazil by documenting changes in FI coinciding with major shifts in social and economic policies. Research is needed to understand to what extent these policy shifts may explain the FI fluctuations over time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100766"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000282/pdfft?md5=858e8546a1f29ad0229d07b0a730da83&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000282-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141292132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial variation in the cost and affordability of the global healthy diet basket: Evidence from household surveys in five African countries","authors":"Lucia Latino , Cindy Holleman , Carlo Cafiero","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100746","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since 2020, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) expanded its global food security metrics, adding Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet (CoAHD). In 2022, they introduced a global Healthy Diet Basket (HDB) standard to estimate countries' CoAHD. This study adopts the HDB method along with prices derived from expenditure modules of 2018-19 household surveys from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal to compute subnational indicators. Findings reveal HDB's efficacy in capturing local consumption patterns when combined with household-level unit prices, making it valuable in the absence of national food-based dietary guidelines. Findings also show that CoAHD indicators derived from national defined basket should be interpreted as lower boundaries, advocating for subnational baskets to guide policies aimed at improving access to healthy diets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100746"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141244390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica K. Wallingford , Saskia de Pee , Anna W. Herforth , Sabrina Kuri , Yan Bai , William A. Masters
{"title":"Measuring food access using least-cost diets: Results for global monitoring and targeting of interventions to improve food security, nutrition and health","authors":"Jessica K. Wallingford , Saskia de Pee , Anna W. Herforth , Sabrina Kuri , Yan Bai , William A. Masters","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100771","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Benchmark diets using the most affordable locally available items to meet health and nutrition needs have long been used to guide food choice and nutrition assistance. This paper describes the result of recent innovations scaling up the use of such least-cost diets by UN agencies, the World Bank, and national governments for a different purpose, which is monitoring food environments and targeting systemic interventions to improve a population's access to sufficient food for an active and healthy life. Measuring food access using least-cost diets allows a clearer understanding of where poor diets are caused by unavailability or high prices for even the lowest-cost healthy foods, insufficient income or other resources to acquire those foods, or the use of other foods instead due to reasons such as time use and meal preparation costs, or cultural factors such as taste and aspirations. This paper reviews the data, methods and results that have led to official FAO and the World Bank adoption of cost and affordability metrics for global monitoring, and the parallel use of similar methods to guide interventions in country studies led by the World Food Programme with partner agencies across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We conclude by summarizing how increasing availability of food price data, matched to food composition and dietary requirements, allows analysts to use recently developed software tools for least-cost diet assessment to improve food access in a wide range of settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100771"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000336/pdfft?md5=7d49923df252ba93d1e8db80b0f2bbbc&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000336-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141250891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Key findings and lessons from USDA-ERS-Yeutter-Institute Food Security Modeling Research Symposium","authors":"Yacob A. Zereyesus , John C. Beghin","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100768"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141244423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edward A. Frongillo, Victoria O. Adebiyi, Morgan Boncyk
{"title":"Meta-review of child and adolescent experiences and consequences of food insecurity","authors":"Edward A. Frongillo, Victoria O. Adebiyi, Morgan Boncyk","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100767","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We conducted a meta-review of consequences associated with food insecurity for children and adolescents, how these consequences occur, and what evidence is available that associations between food insecurity and child outcomes are causal. A systematic search in five databases identified 55 studies on child and adolescent food insecurity and potential consequences. Extensive literature accumulated over nearly 30 years has identified profound consequences for growth, diet, health, and psychological development for children and adolescents who experience food insecurity. Many of these consequences, particularly for academic performance, behavior and psychological development, and mental health, will affect the readiness of children and adolescents for adulthood and occur regardless of setting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100767"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000294/pdfft?md5=bc0c0cfe1fb57566d7dab34659143e15&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000294-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141096016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mysbah Balagamwala , Sabrina Kuri , Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia , Saskia de Pee
{"title":"The affordability gap for nutritious diets – How big is it and how to close it?","authors":"Mysbah Balagamwala , Sabrina Kuri , Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia , Saskia de Pee","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100757","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The high proportion of people unable to afford nutrient-adequate diets has been recognised as a global challenge. For policies and programmes that aim to improve food security and nutrition, it is essential to know the magnitude of the gap between food expenditure and the lowest cost of meeting nutrient needs, i.e., the affordability gap. Using data and examples from Fill the Nutrient Gap analyses in Dominican Republic, Ethiopia and Indonesia, the paper shows how the affordability gap can be used to inform the design of social assistance programmes to have a bigger contribution towards making nutrient-adequate diets more affordable. The affordability gap indicator can help assess adequacy of the transfer value and inform the design of the benefits package to become more comprehensive through linkages with nutrition interventions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100757"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000191/pdfft?md5=03a4f03d1900ec7c7756c320f48cb922&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000191-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141096015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Kihoro , V. Vernooij , G. Schoneveld , T. Crane , S. Vellema
{"title":"Does dairy intensification threaten livelihood diversity in East Africa?","authors":"E. Kihoro , V. Vernooij , G. Schoneveld , T. Crane , S. Vellema","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100770","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Intensifying smallholder dairy farming can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and increase food production on existing croplands. Much public policy therefore assumes that dairy intensification reduces emissions per unit of production, while simultaneously improving both rural incomes and food security. Whether the hypothesized social co-benefits of intensification manifest in practice has not however been fully empirically validated. Because intensification is labor and capital intensive, resource diversions may occur that could make rural livelihoods more specialized. This in turn could threaten dietary diversity and smallholder resilience to shocks. In this article, we accordingly examine the relationship between dairy intensification, livelihood diversity, nutrition diversity, and wellbeing, drawing on primary research conducted in two developing countries, Kenya and Tanzania, with vibrant smallholder dairy sectors. We find that dairy intensification by and large enhances livelihood diversity, nutritional diversity, and wealth. These findings suggest that for dairy, intensification and diversification may be complementary livelihood strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100770"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000324/pdfft?md5=4ca120cb45cf3de0d73d11b639c7e86e&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000324-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141091023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frances Knight , Jane Badham , Helen Walls , Nora Hobbs , Saskia de Pee
{"title":"“Fill the nutrient gap” diet modelling and situation analysis contributes to multisectoral policy and programme decision-making*","authors":"Frances Knight , Jane Badham , Helen Walls , Nora Hobbs , Saskia de Pee","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined how The World Food Programme’s Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) situation analysis has facilitated decision-making to support nutrition. Semi-structured interviews were held with 60 ‘broker’, ‘technical analyst’ and ‘consumer’ end users of the FNG in 11 countries. Almost all FNG cases, especially those conducted in 'development' contexts, had objectives of informing government decision-making, with some, especially in 'fragile' settings, also focused on informing WFP’s own programming. The FNG was credited with contributing evidence to national or sub-national nutrition strategy development, informing advocacy and building momentum and improving understanding around key nutrition issues. Internally, the FNG helped promote WFP’s nutrition-sensitive programming approaches. This article discusses these findings and explores how the FNG’s policy contribution could be strengthened in future applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100756"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141068316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lila Cardell , Yacob Abrehe Zereyesus , Constanza Valdes
{"title":"Global food security estimation: Refining the IFSA caloric threshold using population estimates and projections by age and sex","authors":"Lila Cardell , Yacob Abrehe Zereyesus , Constanza Valdes","doi":"10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48741,"journal":{"name":"Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100760"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912424000221/pdfft?md5=32707828d6e8ff9dd1cd23721c655e29&pid=1-s2.0-S2211912424000221-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140909825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}