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{"title":"Exploring agriculture-child nutrition pathways: Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program","authors":"Averi Chakrabarti,&nbsp;Aurélie P. Harou,&nbsp;Jessica Fanzo,&nbsp;Cheryl A. Palm","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01416-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01416-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Child undernutrition is highly prevalent around the world, particularly in low-income countries where economies are largely driven by the agricultural sector. Agricultural policies have the potential to impact total food production as well as food quality and diversity, thereby shaping nutritional status. In this study, we first corroborate evidence that Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP), which provides subsidized vouchers for farm inputs to targeted rural households, boosts child nutritional status. Our analysis includes recent years during which the program’s nutrition impacts have not been previously examined. We then investigate three broad categories of agriculture-child nutrition linkages in the context of this program: (1) farm production and diversity, (2) crop sales, non-farm enterprises, and food consumption from different sources (purchases and own production), and (3) women’s empowerment and the health environment. In order to identify plausibly causal estimates, we employ a fixed effects-instrumental variable (FE-IV) approach. Our results demonstrate that FISP is associated with an increase in use of agricultural inputs (fertilizer) and boosts crop production. In addition, there are positive impacts on the likelihood that households sell maize, the crop targeted specifically by the program, and operate non-farm enterprises. Recipient households also purchase more vegetables on the market and consume more cereals from the crops they produce themselves. The evidence from this study highlights the main pathways through which an agricultural policy shapes short-term hunger and child nutritional outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"16 1","pages":"201 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139055709","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 engagement, crop diversity, dietary diversity, and food security: evidence from small-scale agricultural households in Uganda","authors":"Katherine Morrissey,&nbsp;Travis Reynolds,&nbsp;Daniel Tobin,&nbsp;Carina Isbell","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01411-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01411-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Small-scale farmers make up the majority of farmers worldwide yet experience particularly high rates of food insecurity. A growing body of literature explores pathways to food and nutrition security among small-scale farmers but has yet to reach consensus on the most effective pathways (e.g., crop specialization for market sale versus on-farm crop diversification for home consumption) to improve livelihoods. Using structural equation modelling (SEM) based on data drawn from the 2015/16 Uganda National Panel Survey, this study considers how farm and household characteristics including gender, age, education, farm size, region, and off-farm income relate to market engagement (farm sales, market purchases) and on-farm crop diversity (Simpson’s diversity). We then further examine how market engagement and on-farm crop diversity relate to household livelihood outcomes including dietary diversity and food security (number of food secure months). Findings suggest that both higher levels of market engagement and on-farm crop diversity are associated with increased dietary diversity. Higher levels of crop diversity—whether for market sale or for self-consumption—are strongly associated with improved food security. Market engagement is positively associated with increased dietary diversity, and this association is particularly strong for market purchases. Together, these findings highlight the potential for both market-based strategies and on-farm crop diversity to contribute to food security goals in Uganda, providing further evidence that these strategies can be complementary.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"16 1","pages":"133 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-023-01411-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138580243","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":"Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana","authors":"Winnie Chepng’etich Sambu,&nbsp;Fiorella Picchioni,&nbsp;Sara Stevano,&nbsp;Emmanuel A. Codjoe,&nbsp;Paul Kwame Nkegbe,&nbsp;Christopher Turner","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01408-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01408-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Unhealthy diets are among the main risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In Sub Saharan Africa, NCDs were responsible for 37% of deaths in 2019, rising from 24% in 2000. There is an increasing emphasis on health-harming industrial foods, such as ultra-processed foods (UPFs), in driving the incidence of diet-related NCDs. However, there is a methodological gap in food systems research to adequately account for the processes and actors that shape UPFs consumption across the different domains of the food systems framework and macro-meso-micro levels of analysis. This paper interrogates how the Food Systems Framework for Improved Nutrition (HLPE in <i>Nutrition and food systems. A report by the high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition of the committee on world food security</i>, 2017), considered the dominant framework to analyse nutrition, and language of interdisciplinarity are practised in research with regards to consumption of UPFs among adolescents in Ghana, a population group that is often at the forefront of dramatic shifts in diets and lifestyles. We conducted a scoping review of studies published between 2010 and February 2022, retrieved 25 studies, and mapped the findings against the domains and analysis levels of the Food Systems Framework for Improved Nutrition (HLPE in <i>Nutrition and food systems. A report by the high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition of the committee on world food security</i>, 2017). Our study illustrates that there is a tendency to address unhealthy diets among adolescents in a siloed manner, and as a behavioural and nutritional issue. In most cases, the analyses fail to show how domains of the food systems framework are connected and do not account for linkages across different levels of analysis. Methodologically, there is a quantitative bias. From the policy point of view, there is a disconnect between national food policies and food governance (i.e., trade and regulations) and initiatives and measures specifically targeted at adolescent’s food environments and the drivers of UPFs consumption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"16 1","pages":"79 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-023-01408-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518357","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":"Patterns of research on food security, 2020–2022","authors":"Serge Savary","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01420-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01420-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"15 6","pages":"1421 - 1429"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518356","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":"Food vouchers and dietary diversity: evidence from social protection reform in Indonesia","authors":"Anu Rammohan,&nbsp;Achmad Tohari","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01413-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01413-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In-kind food transfers are widely used in many developing countries to address food insecurity, yet undernutrition remains a key problem. In this paper, we combine nationally representative administrative and household survey data from Indonesia, to evaluate whether the replacement of means-tested in-kind food transfers (<i>Rastra</i> program which delivered staple cereal rice) by a food voucher system (<i>BPNT</i> program) changed the consumption behaviour of the poor. Our analyses show that the BPNT program increased dietary diversity among poor households, by at least 15 percentage points relative to those households that still received in-kind food transfers. Further, the new initiative has also improved the consumption of essential nutrients by poor households and the targeting performance of social welfare programs. Our results highlight the importance of social protection reform and show that changing such in-kind programs to vouchers provide poor households with greater flexibility to choose the foods of their choice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"16 1","pages":"161 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518352","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":"It is beautiful: the uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman (2021) The uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Essential lessons for collective action","authors":"Serge Savary","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01423-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01423-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"15 6","pages":"1685 - 1686"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139242020","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":"A method for estimating physical and economic food access at high spatial resolution","authors":"Florencio Campomanes V,&nbsp;Michael Marshall,&nbsp;Andrew Nelson","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01404-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01404-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Physical and economic access to food vary spatially. Methods to map that variability at high levels of spatial detail over large areas are scarce, even though suitable datasets and methods exist. Using open-access data for Ethiopia, we developed a method to map the disparities in physical and economic food access at 1-km resolution. We selected 25 access-related variables for 486 geo-located communities from the 2018 Ethiopian Living Standards Measurement Study to create a food access index (FAI). The index was based on a weighted summation of the 25 variables from a principal component analysis (PCA). We then extrapolated the FAI to the rest of Ethiopia using a generalized additive model (GAM) to produce a 1-km resolution FAI map and used that to describe the spatial variability of food access. Economic access had a heavier weight than physical access in the FAI reflecting the fact that proximity to food markets alone is insufficient if one cannot afford food. The GAM had an R² of 0.57 and a normalized root mean square error of 22.2% which are comparable to measures of model performance in studies that provided micro-level estimates of relative wealth. Peri-urban areas, representing 67% of the population, had relatively low food access, suggesting that these areas should be a priority for infrastructure or economic intervention. The scarcity of detailed spatial information on food access may limit the effectiveness of targeted policymaking to improve food security. The methodology developed in this study uses widely available and carefully selected datasets and can contribute to more spatially detailed estimates of food access in other countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"16 1","pages":"47 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-023-01404-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518353","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":"Water insecurity is associated with greater food insecurity and lower dietary diversity: panel data from sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Joshua D. Miller,&nbsp;Sera L. Young,&nbsp;Elizabeth Bryan,&nbsp;Claudia Ringler","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01412-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01412-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is growing recognition that water insecurity – the inability to reliably access sufficient water for all household uses – is commonly experienced globally and has myriad adverse consequences for human well-being. The role of water insecurity in food insecurity and diet quality, however, has received minimal attention. Data are from panel surveys conducted during 2020–21 among adults involved in smallholder agriculture in Niger (n = 364, 3 rounds), Nigeria (n = 501, 5 rounds), Senegal (n = 501, 5 rounds), and Ghana (n = 543, 5 rounds). We hypothesized that household water insecurity (measured using the brief Household Water Insecurity Experiences Scale) would be associated with greater individual food insecurity (using 5 of the 8 Food Insecurity Experiences Scale items) and lower dietary diversity (using the Minimum Dietary Diversity Score for Women). At baseline, 37.1% of individuals were living in water-insecure households and of these, 90.6% had some experience of food insecurity. In multilevel mixed-effects regressions, individuals living in water-insecure households had 1.67 (95% CI: 1.47, 1.89) times higher odds of reporting any food insecurity experience and were estimated to consume 0.38-fewer food groups (95% CI: -0.50, -0.27) than those living in water-secure households. Experiences with suboptimal water access and use are associated with poor nutrition. The pathways by which water insecurity impacts nutrition should be identified. Global and national food and nutrition security policies could be strengthened by monitoring and developing strategies to address household water insecurity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"16 1","pages":"149 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-023-01412-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518351","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 2023-24 El Niño event and its possible global consequences on food security with emphasis on India","authors":"Manjari Singh,&nbsp;Sonam Sah,&nbsp;R. N. Singh","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01419-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01419-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ongoing, 2023–2024 El Niño appears to become a strong event, possibly comparable to the other strong El Niño episodes on record. In itself, and because it coincides with grave tensions – economic, political and environmental across the world – the phenomenon could have major climatic, social, and economic consequences. This Opinion article considers the scientific information available, explores the possible climatic consequences, and assesses the impacts on global food security. The case of India, one of the main agricultural and most populated country in the world, is considered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"15 6","pages":"1431 - 1436"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134954256","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":"Consumers’ perceptions of food fraud in selected Southeast Asian countries: a cross sectional study","authors":"Jan Mei Soon-Sinclair,&nbsp;Thanh Mai Ha,&nbsp;Iwan Vanany,&nbsp;Mark Raguindin Limon,&nbsp;Wandee Sirichokchatchawan,&nbsp;Ikarastika Rahayu Abdul Wahab,&nbsp;Ruhil Hayati Hamdan,&nbsp;Mohd Hafiz Jamaludin","doi":"10.1007/s12571-023-01406-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12571-023-01406-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Southeast Asia is projected to be the fourth largest economy in 2050, where agriculture and food are key sectors contributing to the regional’s GDP. However, ensuring food safety and traceability remains a challenge in the region and this offers ripe opportunity for fraudsters to take advantage of the system. This study aims to provide an overview of consumers’ concern about food fraud in selected countries in Southeast Asia. A cross-sectional online survey was implemented in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, yielding 1393 valid responses. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) was conducted first to reduce the large dataset containing nominal variables. After that, ordered logistic regression was performed to predict food fraud concern, with independent variables being dimensions derived from MCA, total knowledge and experience, and demographic characteristics. We found that respondents from Vietnam and Malaysia were significantly more worried about food fraud compared to other countries. Concerns about food fraud were influenced by increased demand for food fraud control, perceived risks of different types of food fraud, information sources from media and personal networks, information sources from credible organisations, and self-experience of food fraud. Practical and policy recommendations for the region were suggested. This is the first empirical study on consumers’ concern about food fraud in Southeast Asia. The study embodies the UK Global Food Security and UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 2 ethos of providing the growing global population with access to safe food.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":567,"journal":{"name":"Food Security","volume":"16 1","pages":"65 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-023-01406-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135137797","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}