Urbanization, livestock systems and food security in developing countries: A systematic review of the literature

Hatab, Assem Abu; Cavinato, Maria Eduarda Rigo; Lagerkvist, Carl Johan

doi:10.1007/s12571-019-00906-1

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“…We thus further argue that the contribution of urban agriculture to urban household food security should be nuanced in terms of the geography of production. However, as others (Poulsen et al 2015;Warren et al 2015;Abu Hatab et al 2019a) have shown, city context matters, and such heterogeneity needs to be recognized in UA policies and practices. As shown for Tamale, our results confirm that markets, not just production, are important if agriculture is to contribute substantially to urban household food security.…”

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The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana

2020

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The debate about the contribution of urban agriculture to urban household food security has not considered the possible differential effects by geography of production activities, focusing either on urban household's participation in agriculture irrespective of where the activity takes place, or restricting participation to production within urban and peri-urban areas, or more narrowly, production within build-up urban spaces. Using a sample of 2004 households in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana, this article contributes by disentangling urban household's participation in agriculture by geography of production activities and the implications for the food security of urban households. We find no evidence from our sample that participation in agriculture in general matters for the food security of urban households. However, urbanites who produced food in both urban and rural areas had better food security in the medium-sized city.

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The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana

2020

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“…The results also show girls are generally less stunted than boys and older children are more likely to be stunted and wasted, similar to evidence seen in other studies (Behrman and Taubman 1986;Black et al 2013, Alderman andHeadey 2017a). Value of asset holding, livestock holding, and non-agricultural wage income play a positive role in reducing the prevalence of child stunting (Christian et al 2019;Hatab et al 2019).…”

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The role of agriculture in reducing child undernutrition in Nigeria

Amare¹,

Balana²,

Ogunniyi³

2020

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This study examines the effect of agricultural productivity change on child nutritional outcomes in Nigeria. Using several waves of micro-level panel data from Nigeria, we first show that high temperature (heat stress) reduces agricultural productivity change. A one percent increase in high temperatures during the crop growth period result in a 4 percent decrease in agricultural productivity. More importantly, our analysis provides several important insights on the implications of agricultural productivity change for reducing child undernutrition. The results show that agricultural productivity growth has a positive effect on child nutritional outcomes, measured by child height-forage and weight-forage. The main channel through which agricultural productivity growth affects child nutritional outcomes is by increasing food production for own household consumption. This suggests that productivity-enhancing investments in the agricultural sector could have a direct impact on child nutritional outcomes among smallholder households in Nigeria. The results also show that agricultural productivity change has higher impact for households who have better access to markets and a higher educational level. Interventions and policies geared towards intensification of agricultural production need to be complemented with strategies for widening educational programs and improving farmers' access to markets. to induce incentives for increased production.

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“…Food security has been defined as a situation when food is physically and economically available for all people to meet their dietary needs for a healthy life [1]. Nowadays, food security has become a global issue as two-thirds of the population will live in cities in the near future [2][3][4][5][6], on the other hand, farming business has to face declining farmland conversion [7][8][9][10], a loss of farmland ownership [11][12][13][14], a lack in rural development [15,16], and unstable farming productivity due to climate changes [17][18][19][20]. Therefore, the compliance of food supply and demand should be carefully monitored to avoid declining nutrition and the poor health of humankind.…”

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Spatial Analysis of Socio-Economic Driving Factors of Food Expenditure Variation between Provinces in Indonesia

2020

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Food security has become one of the global challenges; therefore, monitoring food consumption is required. As food consumption is a resultant of food availability at an affordable price, food expenditure actually is a key indicator to assess food security policy. Particularly, the link of food expenditure with socio-economic factors based on the perspective of spatial connectivity should be understood as nowadays food supply and demand between regions are increasingly connected. This study aims to define socio-economic driving factors of food expenditure that considering spatial connectivity between provinces in Indonesia. Data of household food expenditure and socio-economic factors by province including urbanization level, economic growth, gross domestic regional product (GDRP) per capita, poverty severity index, and unemployment rate were used. The preliminary test on the spatial correlation of food expenditure showed a significant result; thus, a spatial regression approach was employed. The results showed that declining food expenditure did not simply indicate increasing prosperity. Larger income disparity among the poor has become crucial to detect lower food expenditure caused by a lack of income. In addition, the increasing unemployment rate was followed by increasing food expenditure. Despite economic growth, increasing GDRP per capita and urbanization contributing to declining food expenditure, both poverty and unemployment are the main issues that threaten household's ability to afford food. Furthermore, the effect of food expenditure in the neighboring region is also significant, but it shows a contradictory relationship as food expenditure in a region is decreasing when food expenditure in its neighbors is increasing, and vice versa. Therefore, reducing disparities in economic growth, GDRP per capita, urbanization, poverty, and unemployment rate between provinces is also crucial to support more equal food expenditure as well as to achieve the second goal of SDG's (Sustainable Development Goals) in improving food security.

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Urbanization, livestock systems and food security in developing countries: A systematic review of the literature

Cited by 84 publications

References 107 publications

The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana

The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana

The role of agriculture in reducing child undernutrition in Nigeria

Spatial Analysis of Socio-Economic Driving Factors of Food Expenditure Variation between Provinces in Indonesia

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