Who are the World’s Food Insecure? New Evidence from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Insecurity Experience Scale

Smith, Michael D.; Rabbitt, Matthew P.; Coleman‐Jensen, Alisha

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.006

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“…Extant literature has analyzed the role played in determining food security by household factors such as farm size (Aidoo, Mensah, & Tuffour, 2013; Muche, Endalew, & Koricho, 2014), access to credit (Gebre, 2012), income (Matchaya & Chilonda, 2012), and education of the household head (Magana‐Lemus, Ishdorj, Rosson, & Lara‐Álvarez, 2016). Smith, Rabbitt, and Coleman‐Jensen (2017) report low levels of education, weak social networks, less social capital, low household income, and unemployment to be the five characteristics associated with the largest increase in the likelihood of experiencing food insecurity around the world. Imai, Annim, Kulkarni, and Gaiha (2014) show that rural Indian children’s nutritional status, as exhibited in their likelihood of being stunted or underweight, improves with women’s education and empowerment.…”

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Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia

Mughal¹,

Sers²

2020

Review Development Economics

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South Asia remains one of the major strongholds of hunger in the world, despite the fact that, following the Green Revolution, cereal production in the countries of this region tripled during the second half of the 20th century. This study examines the role played by this increase in cereal production in improving the region's nutrition and food security situation. We study the association between the different aspects of food security and cereal production in South Asia that have prevailed over the past 25 years. We find a beneficial role of the production and yield of cereals in lowering the extent of undernourishment. A 1% increase in cereal production and yield is associated with up to 0.84% decrease in the prevalence of undernourishment. The impact is significant over a period of 3 years. The positive effect is particularly evident in the case of rice and maize production. An improvement is seen in the aspects of availability, stability, and utilization of food security but not in the aspect of access. These findings are robust to alternative specifications and techniques. The results explain, in part, the means by which South Asian nations have managed to stall relative increases in extreme hunger and food insecurity.

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Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia

Mughal¹,

Sers²

2020

Review Development Economics

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“…To determine whether negative macroeconomic shocks occurred in Nunavut when Nutrition North Canada was intro duced, we visually inspected time trends for several macroeco nomic factors associated with food insecurity 30,[50][51][52] (Consumer Price Index, social assistance caseload, gross domestic product, and rates of low income and unemployment) (Appendix 1, Sup plemental Figure A2).…”

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Food insecurity in Nunavut following the introduction of Nutrition North Canada

St-Germain

Galloway

Tarasuk

2019

CMAJ

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ousehold food insecurity, defined as insecure or inade quate access to food because of financial constraints, is increasingly recognized as a serious public health problem in many affluent nations. 1-4 The latest national estimate for Canada indicates that 12.6% of households experienced food insecurity in 2012, 5 but important geographic variations exist within the country, with heightened vulnerability in the North. 5-7 Since national moni toring began, Nunavut has consistently had the highest rates of food insecurity, 5,6,8 with the rate reaching 46.8% in 2014. 8 Food insecurity is strongly associated with poor nutrition 9-13 and adverse mental and physical health outcomes across the life cycle. 14-22 Recent research also indicates that food insecurity is a robust and independ ent predictor of increased health care use 23 and expenditures. 24,25 Food insecurity represents an experience of material depriva tion strongly influenced by the economic resources of house holds, 26-30 but high food prices are also considered an important driver of food insecurity in Canada's North. 7,31-34 In April 2011, the Government of Canada replaced the longstanding Food Mail Program with Nutrition North Canada, a marketdriven food retail subsidy intended to make perishable, nutritious foods more affordable and accessible in northern communities that do not have yearround rail, road or marine access. 34-36 Similar to the Food Mail Program, Nutrition North Canada serves communities that are predominantly inhabited by Indigen ous Peoples and have high rates of food insecurity, low educa tional attainment, low income, underemployment and unem ployment. 34,37,38 Whereas the Food Mail Program consisted of an air freight transportation subsidy transferred to Canada Post for the delivery of numerous perishable foods, nonperishable foods and essential nonfood items, 35,37,39 Nutrition North Canada is a retail subsidy focused primarily on perishable, nutritious foods and transferred directly to southern suppliers and northern retailers, who are expected to pass on the full subsidy to con sumers at the point of purchase 35,40

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“…This is mainly due to the anthropogenic factors leading to the transformation of agricultural and forest areas into investment ones. Considering the fact that the area dedicated for crops is decreasing, with the simultaneous increase in the demand for food due to the population growth, it is necessary to look for rational solutions allowing to produce food on a global scale [Smith et al, 2017;Voelklein et al, 2017]. Undoubtedly, the most important areas of economy of each country are food security along with energy supply [Kostecka et al, 2017;Moreb et al, 2017].…”

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Agricultural Biogas Plants as a Chance for the Development of the Agri-Food Sector

Czekała¹

2018

J. Ecol. Eng.

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Agricultural biogas plants are an important source of energy, where the substrates from agricultural crops can be used. However, these plants need a daily input of biomass in the quantities up to several dozen tons. A few years ago, the most important substrate used for biogas production was maize silage. However, currently, there is a trend to limit the use of the afore-mentioned substrate. This is mainly due to the high cost of the substrate and the conflict over the rational use of valuable soils for biomass production for energy purposes. In the paper, the author undertook the attempts to discuss the possibility of limiting the use of raw vegetable materials for energy production, replacing them with agri-food production waste.

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Who are the World’s Food Insecure? New Evidence from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Insecurity Experience Scale

Cited by 263 publications

References 29 publications

Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia

Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia

Food insecurity in Nunavut following the introduction of Nutrition North Canada

Agricultural Biogas Plants as a Chance for the Development of the Agri-Food Sector

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