坦桑尼亚农村小农的农业犯罪受害与粮食安全结果

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI:10.1007/s12571-025-01541-9

Nelson A. Ochieng, Ulrike Grote

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本文探讨了农业犯罪受害（包括盗窃和破坏作物和牲畜）与小农家庭粮食安全之间的关系。我们使用了2016年、2018年和2021年收集的坦桑尼亚农村地区独特的面板数据集，并使用食品消费得分（FCS）、家庭粮食不安全获取得分（HFIAS）和减少应对策略指数（rCSI）来衡量粮食安全的各个维度。我们使用线性双向固定效应模型分析受害与FCS之间的关系，并使用Tobit回归模型分析HFIAS与rCSI之间的关系。我们的研究结果显示，平均而言，家庭每年因犯罪而遭受的损失相当于食品总支出的6%。在所有指标中，破坏行为都与较低的粮食安全水平有关，而盗窃作物和牲畜与较高的HFIAS和rCSI得分有关，表明粮食不安全状况更严重。这些调查结果表明，必须认识到农业犯罪受害是对粮食安全的新威胁，需要在农村社区予以关注和干预。

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Agricultural crime victimization and food security outcomes among smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania

This article explores the relationship between agricultural crime victimization, including theft and vandalism of crops and livestock, and food security of smallholder farming households. We use a distinctive panel dataset from rural Tanzania collected in 2016, 2018, and 2021 and measure various dimensions of food security using the Food Consumption Score (FCS), the Household Food Insecurity Access Score (HFIAS) and the Reduced Coping Strategies Index (rCSI). We use the linear two-way fixed effects model to analyze the association between victimization and FCS, and Tobit regression model for HFIAS and rCSI. Our findings reveal that on average, households suffer losses from crime equivalent to 6% of total food expenditure in a year. While vandalism is consistently linked to lower food security across all indicators, theft of crops and livestock is associated with higher HFIAS and rCSI scores, suggesting greater food insecurity. These findings necessitate the need to recognize agricultural crime victimization as an emerging threat to food security that requires attention and intervention in rural communities.

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

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14.00

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.