Food remittances and food security: a review

Crush, Jonathan; Caesar, Mary

doi:10.1080/21632324.2017.1410977

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“…Although no previous studies have examined food insecurity of the left behind Nepali older parents in the context of adult children's migration, our hypothesis is based on the premise that food insecurity status is strongly correlated with poor household income or economic crisis [28]. For Nepal's government, as well as the left-behind family members, the remittance received from foreign employment is a major source of finance [29,30]. For families of migrant workers, remittance may help to overcome the financial crisis, and by increasing purchasing capacity, it may help to buffer food insecurity.…”

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Food insecurity among senior citizens in high out-migration areas: evidence from Western Nepal

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Background: Food insecurity is a critical public health challenge, particularly in low-and middle-income countries such as Nepal. The demographic transition has resulted in a growing population of senior citizens. However, the determinants of food insecurity among Nepali senior citizens remain unknown. This study aims to fill this gap by assessing food insecurity among the older populations in the far-western region, one of the poorest regions of the country. Further, we also aim to assess the potential association between adult children's migration and the food insecurity status of the left behind older parents. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 260 randomly selected senior citizens in the Kanchanpur district in far-western Nepal. The short form of the household food security scale, originally developed by the United States Department of Agriculture, was used to measure household food security. Associations were examined by logistic regression. Results: The prevalence of food insecurity in senior citizens' households was 41.1%. Senior citizen households with their adult children's migration (AOR = 0.47, 95% CI: 0.24-0.95) had lower odds of being food insecure whereas households with lower family income (<$100 compared to ≥ $100) had two times higher odds of being food insecure (AOR = 2.26, 95% CI: 1.08-4.76). Also, households owning a cultivable land/farm (AOR = 0.14, 95% CI: 0.05-0.40), primary source of income as service/pension (AOR = 0.26, 95% CI: 0.08-0.89) or business (AOR = 0.15, 95% CI: 0.03-0.59) and participants who received geriatric allowances (AOR = 0.05, 95% CI = 0.01-0.16) had lower odds of being food insecure. Conclusion: The prevalence of food insecurity among households with a senior citizen in Kanchanpur district was high and associated with the migration status of adult children, and household socioeconomic status. This calls for a greater policy response focused specifically on households with older adults and the integration of gerontological evidence into the existing food security and nutrition strategies.

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Food insecurity among senior citizens in high out-migration areas: evidence from Western Nepal

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“…In addition, over 200,000 Basotho migrants live and work in urban areas across the border in South Africa and send remittances to support households in Lesotho. Food purchase is the single most important use of remittances [24]. What this means, in effect, is that Lesotho's population is actually far more urbanized than is suggested by the convenient enumeration of Basotho as having either a primary rural or urban residence rather than a combination of both.…”

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Urban Agriculture and Urban Food Insecurity in Maseru, Lesotho

Crush¹,

Frayne²,

McCordic³

2017

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Lesotho is facing continued and widespread food insecurity. In spite of a rapidly growing urban population, food security interventions and paradigms have primarily focused on bolstering food production within the country. This paper assesses the extent to which household engagement in urban agriculture in Maseru is associated with improved food security. Using household survey data, the paper argues that there is no consistent and statistically-significant relationship between urban agriculture practice and food security among Maseru households. Furthermore, some urban agriculture practices were only associated with significantly greater odds of food security for middle-income households in the sample. Given the that the observed benefits of urban agriculture appear to be conditional upon household income, this study suggests that a generalized production-centred approach to food insecurity may not be the most effective means of addressing household food security in Maseru.

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“…Food remitting has received relatively little attention in comparison with the large volume of research on the drivers and impacts of cash remittances [36]. So, too, has the impact of cash and goods remitting on the food security of remittance senders living in urban areas been overlooked [28].…”

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Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

2021

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This paper draws on data from a representative city-wide household food security survey of Nairobi conducted in 2017 to examine the importance of food remitting to households in contemporary Nairobi. The first section of the paper provides an overview of the urbanization and rapid growth of Nairobi, which has led to growing socio-economic inequality, precarious livelihoods for the majority, and growing food insecurity, as context for the more detailed empirical analysis of food security and food remittances that follows. It is followed by a description of the survey methodology and sections analyzing the differences between migrant and non-migrant households in Nairobi. Attention then turns to the phenomenon of food remitting, showing that over 50% of surveyed households in the city had received food remittances in the previous year. The paper then uses multivariate logistic regression to identify the relationship between Nairobi household characteristics and the probability of receiving food remittances from rural areas. The findings suggest that there are exceptions to the standard migration and poverty-driven explanatory model of the drivers of rural–urban food remitting and that greater attention should be paid to other motivations for maintaining rural–urban connectivity in Africa.

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Food remittances and food security: a review

Cited by 24 publications

References 63 publications

Food insecurity among senior citizens in high out-migration areas: evidence from Western Nepal

Food insecurity among senior citizens in high out-migration areas: evidence from Western Nepal

Urban Agriculture and Urban Food Insecurity in Maseru, Lesotho

Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

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