Food Security最新文献

{"title":"Mapping climate vulnerability to support climate adaptation in maize farming systems in Kenya","authors":"Sarah Murabula Achola,&nbsp;Abel Chemura,&nbsp;Christoph Gornott","doi":"10.1007/s12571-025-01627-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-025-01627-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A systematic knowledge of climate vulnerability distribution within a country is important to design informed climate change adaptation planning which will contribute to food security. We used a vulnerability index for maize farming-related hazards, which combines both biophysical and socio-economic factors for Kenya at a disaggregated level. These factors include: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity (capacity of a system to adapt to shocks) related to maize farming. We show that high-yield maize zones have high climate sensitivity, which is inversely related to exposure. In contrast, adaptive capacity on maize farms is highly variable across counties of Kenya. We found that most counties in Kenya have a low potential impact of climate change on maize farming suggesting resilience to hazards that affect maize farms. Sensitivity analysis of the vulnerability index, which we propose in this work, suggests that adaptive capacity has the highest influence on vulnerability. This study emphasises the need to disaggregate climate vulnerability assessments in order to address key food crops, on which in turn, hazard-adaptation instruments can be targeted. The vulnerability index proposed in this work therefore provides a basis for climate adaptation recommendations at a localised scale, which can be used by policymakers and practitioners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 4","pages":"909 - 922"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-025-01627-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148465289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of mobile banking in coping with food insecurity in Burkina Faso","authors":"Arouna Kouandou","doi":"10.1007/s12571-026-01644-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-026-01644-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper empirically examines the association between mobile banking adoption and household food insecurity in Burkina Faso, using data from the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES). In sub-Saharan Africa, persistent food insecurity raises critical questions about the coping strategies households employ. Growing evidence suggests that digital finance plays an important role in helping unbanked populations manage uninsured risks. Leveraging two waves of the Enquête Harmonisée sur les Conditions de Vie des Ménages (EHCVM) from 2018/2019 to 2021/2022, we apply entropy balancing and fixed-effects regressions to address potential selection bias. Our results show that mobile banking users are significantly less likely to face food insecurity, with stronger associations observed in rural areas—highlighting the importance of digital financial services in remote contexts. Further analysis reveals that mobile banking correlates with greater formal financial inclusion, such as owning bank and microfinance accounts, and increased participation in non-farm entrepreneurship. While our findings align with the growing literature on digital finance and poverty reduction, we emphasize that these are associations, rather than causal effects. Nonetheless, the evidence provides valuable guidance for policymakers seeking to bolster household resilience to food insecurity in Burkina Faso.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 2","pages":"559 - 580"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147559102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Market channel and other drivers of tomato farmer production and handling practices in Nigeria","authors":"Mesay Yami,&nbsp;Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie,&nbsp;Oladayo Olayinka,&nbsp;Tesfamicheal Wossen,&nbsp;Futoshi Yamauchi,&nbsp;Shiferaw Feleke,&nbsp;Tahirou Abdoulaye","doi":"10.1007/s12571-026-01646-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-026-01646-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Non-contract farming arrangements remain the dominant marketing option for poor, often food-insecure smallholder farmers in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet such farming arrangements are less studied than contract farming. Using a case study of 1,673 Nigerian tomato farmers, this study examined whether selling to midstream actors such as wholesalers and aggregators (via informal market arrangements) supports farmers’ adoption of good agricultural practices. We first explored the drivers of farmer sales to different market channels using a multinomial logit model. Then, using multivariate probit analysis, we identified factors associated with the adoption of good agricultural practices (GAP) and good handling practices (GHP) with particular attention to a farmers’ market channel. We found that larger smallholder farmers using modern irrigation are more likely to sell to midstream actors. We also found that selling to wholesalers and aggregators is an important determinant of farmers’ adoption of GAP and GHP, and this holds even for the smallest smallholder farmers. These results confirm that even where informal trading arrangements dominate (as is common in most LMICs), value chain actors in the midstream of food supply chains can support farmer adoption of GAP and GHP. These relationships have important implications for food security via enhancing the livelihoods of smallholder producers and improving the availability and safety of fresh produce for consumers, and thus should be leveraged in the design and implementation of efforts to expand farmer adoption of GAP and GHP.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 2","pages":"541 - 558"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-026-01646-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147559103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Science for Africa’s future food security: the need for an all-Africa food supply strategy","authors":"Lukas Kornher,&nbsp;Isabell Daniels,&nbsp;Getaw Tadesse","doi":"10.1007/s12571-025-01635-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-025-01635-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Africa has become import-dependent for staple food cereals over the past five decades. It is an ongoing dispute if increasing import dependency in Africa is causing food security risks for its population fueled by recent increases of uncertainties around international trade caused by geopolitical tensions and global trade policy disruptions. We call for an all-African approach based on regionally coordinated domestic support policies to increase Africa’s self-sufficiency and reduce international imports. We argue that the recent trend towards self-sufficiency as the overarching goal is not a sufficient strategy to improve food security because domestic support policies distort markets, increase prices, and set wrong incentives. Trade distorting policies risk undermining the benefits of regional and international trade for food security because often only trade can provide an efficient insurance mechanism against local supply shocks. A regional policy coordination is required for country-specific policy decisions framed by an all-African trade policy framework to balance production and imports primarily at the continental level. If a food self-sufficiency approach — for political reasons — is to be pursued, it should be in a way that is less distortive of the domestic and regional markets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 3","pages":"629 - 635"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-025-01635-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147959174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do agricultural trade liberalization, climate variability and change, and governance quality influence food security in ASEAN?","authors":"Veasna Trakem,&nbsp;Hongzhong Fan,&nbsp;Dyna Sam,&nbsp;Sokhan Chen","doi":"10.1007/s12571-025-01631-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-025-01631-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Guaranteeing global food security is one of the greatest challenges of the 21^st century, mostly due to defense measures such as border restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing conflicts in Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza, and climate change. For this reason, this study empirically explores the simultaneous dynamic effects of agricultural trade liberalization, climate variability and change, and governance quality on food security in the ASEAN member states from 2003 to 2022. Deploying advanced techniques to tackle cross-sectional dependence, serial autocorrelation, and heteroskedasticity while offering robust standard errors in panel data through panel corrected standard errors (PCSE) and feasible generalized least squares (FGLS), as well as the Driscoll-Kraay standard error and one-step system generalized method of moments (GMM) approaches for robustness, the empirical findings prove that agricultural trade openness significantly improves all pillars of food security. Additionally, being open to agricultural exports and imports greatly helps improve nearly all aspects of food security in the ASEAN region, except for food stability, where more agricultural imports actually lead to greater fluctuations in the amount of food available per person. As expected, climate change negatively impacts food security, although strengthened governance quality promotes the improvement of food availability and utilization in ASEAN. Besides, GDP per capita seems to enhance food security, but GDP growth tends to elevate the prevalence of undernourishment and diminish food stability in the region. This study unveils key policy implications for attaining food security in the ASEAN region through fostering collaboration within ASEAN and with its trading partners, as well as advocating for sustainable agricultural practices and climate adaptation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 2","pages":"495 - 540"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147558735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hyderabad’s egg value chain: investigating potential influences on childhood stunting","authors":"Emma Gomez de Gracia,&nbsp;Barbara Häsler,&nbsp;Srinu Rotta,&nbsp;Archana Konapur,&nbsp;Thanammal Ravichandran,&nbsp;Paula Dominguez-Salas,&nbsp;Mathew Hennessey,&nbsp;Delia Randolph,&nbsp;Little Flower Augustine,&nbsp;Naveen Kumar Ramachandrappa,&nbsp;Claire Heffernan,&nbsp;Santosh Kumar Banjara,&nbsp;Bharati Kulkarni","doi":"10.1007/s12571-025-01633-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-025-01633-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In 2024, stunting affected over 150 million children under five worldwide, with India being one of the countries with the highest prevalence. The links between stunting, animal health and the health of the environment make a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach essential to combatting childhood stunting in affected countries. This study examined the egg value chain in Hyderabad, India, investigating its potential influences on childhood stunting. Semi-structured interviews with ten key informants gathered data on the egg value chain’s spatial, logistical, economic, and social dimensions. The interviews were analysed through reflexive thematic analysis. A conceptual framework was developed showcasing the links between food value chains and stunting and used as a lens through which to analyse deductively the qualitative data. Reflexive thematic analysis generated themes encompassing the nutritional quality and food safety of eggs accessed by children, how seasonality affected consumption, and the lack of regulation, which forces actors in the chain to depend on trust. The incorporation of a nutrition-sensitive perspective into the value chain analysis revealed stunting-related opportunities and constraints. These findings offer a basis for dialogue with public and private stakeholders to develop targeted interventions that can support efforts to combat stunting in Hyderabad. Additionally, they underscore the method’s utility in generating a comprehensive understanding of stunting determinants and showcase the potential of value chain interventions in addressing the factors contributing to stunting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 2","pages":"483 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-025-01633-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147561491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of internet use on smallholder farmers’ income and dietary quality in Bangladesh","authors":"Fariha Farjana,&nbsp;Thanh-Tung Nguyen,&nbsp;Matin Qaim","doi":"10.1007/s12571-025-01636-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-025-01636-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Internet access in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries is expanding at a rapid rate and affects how people produce and consume food and other goods and services. This may have implications for the incomes and diets of smallholder farm households, where poverty and undernutrition are still commonplace. In this study, we use primary data collected from 720 farm households in Bangladesh to analyze how internet use affects agricultural production and food consumption. Employing propensity score matching and instrumental variable methods, we show that internet use is positively associated with farm production diversity, commercialization, and income. We also find positive effects on dietary diversity, even though the results depend on the specific dietary indicators used. Internet use increases household and women’s dietary diversity, whereas the effects on child dietary diversity are statistically insignificant. Internet use encourages the production of certain nutritious foods but does not always lead to an increase in their consumption. Our results highlight the important role of the internet in enhancing farm productivity, income, and potentially diets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 2","pages":"467 - 481"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-025-01636-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147561816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consequences of increased farm resilience on food security in Tajikistan","authors":"Bekhzod Egamberdiev,&nbsp;Ihtiyor Bobojonov,&nbsp;Lena Kuhn,&nbsp;Thomas Glauben,&nbsp;Isabel Lambrecht,&nbsp;Kamiljon Akramov","doi":"10.1007/s12571-025-01623-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-025-01623-8","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Unprecedented climate change, socio-economic shocks, and political conflict exacerbate food insecurity. Worsened conditions and increased vulnerability now give prominence to improving farm resilience to withstand shocks. This article aims to analyse the effect of farm resilience on food security outcomes in Tajikistan. Using panel data collected in 12 districts in the Khatlon Province of Tajikistan from 2015 to 2023, the study has the following. (a) measure farm resilience determinants (pillars) through adaptive capacity, transformation capacity, and robustness; (b) estimate the relationship between resilience pillars and food security outcomes; (c) cluster farm households based on the level of resilience pillars; and (d) estimate the effect of farm resilience on food security outcomes. The study first measures farm resilience pillars using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Next, Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) is used to classify farm households into three resilience categories: “Low Resilience”, “Medium Resilience”, and “High Resilience”. The estimation strategy involves making causal claims using LPA and Propensity Score Matching (PSM) techniques. Our results suggest a positive relationship between farm resilience and food security outcomes. Our findings also confirm that “High Resilience” and “Medium Resilience” profiles experience better dietary diversity, higher fruit and vegetable consumption, or decreased household hunger, compared to the “Low Resilience” profile. Such a positive relationship underlines the importance of strengthening farm resilience. Further development agendas for Tajikistan should consider resilience thinking, especially in shock-prone zones. Objectives: (a) measure farm resilience determinants (pillars) through adaptive capacity, transformation capacity, and robustness; (b) estimate the relationship between resilience pillars and food security outcomes; (c) cluster farm households based on the level of resilience pillars; and (d) estimate the effect of farm resilience on food security outcomes. The study first measures farm resilience pillars using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Next, Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) is used to classify farm households into three resilience categories: “Low Resilience”, “Medium Resilience”, and “High Resilience”. The estimation strategy involves making causal claims using LPA and Propensity Score Matching (PSM) techniques. Our results suggest a positive relationship between farm resilience and food security outcomes. Our findings also confirm that “High Resilience” and “Medium Resilience” profiles experience better dietary diversity, higher fruit and vegetable consumption, or decreased household hunger, compared to the “Low Resilience” profile. Such a positive relationship underlines the importance of strengthening farm resilience. Further development agendas for Tajikistan should consider resilience thinking, especially in shock-prone zones.&lt;/","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 2","pages":"443 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-025-01623-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147561474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acknowledgement of Reviewers for their volunteered work during 2025 on submissions to Food Security","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s12571-026-01652-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-026-01652-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 1","pages":"1 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147342848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do spatial spillovers in food insecurity exist within a country? An analysis of droughts, conflicts, and livelihoods in Somalia","authors":"Sergio Tezanos-Vázquez,&nbsp;Jose Antonio Sánchez-Martí","doi":"10.1007/s12571-025-01640-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-025-01640-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Do spatial spillovers in food insecurity exist within a country? To address this question, a spatial analysis is conducted on Somalia, one of the world’s most vulnerable nations. The study examines the spatial effects of four key triggers of extreme food insecurity: droughts, violent conflicts, internal population displacements, and livelihood types. Biannual geo-referenced data from 73 districts, covering the period from 2015 to 2023, are analysed using spatial panel data econometric methods to uncover the complex dynamics of food insecurity within a country and across its districts. The findings indicate that severe food insecurity in Somalia results from the synergistic interaction of anthropogenic and natural determinants. Droughts and internal displacement heighten families’ vulnerability to famine, while rural areas possess limited coping strategies. Moreover, food insecurity spills over into neighbouring districts, further complicating mitigation efforts. The novelty of this study lies in its analysis of the spatial dynamics of food insecurity <i>within</i> a single Least Developed Country rather than across multiple countries (as the previous literature did). Policy recommendations include coordinating interventions across districts to effectively prevent and mitigate extreme food insecurity, expanding humanitarian assistance, implementing a comprehensive investment strategy to build climate-resilient food systems, and fostering peace and institutional capacity to support long-term development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"18 4","pages":"885 - 908"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-025-01640-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}