The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies
We analyze rural households’ purchases of food (cereals and non-cereals) in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative data with 65,000 observations covering 7 countries over a decade. We distinguish between three strata of countries: lower stratum in income and urbanization, middle stratum,...
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| author | Dzanku, F.M. Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda Lenis Onipede Reardon, Thomas |
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| description | We analyze rural households’ purchases of food (cereals and non-cereals) in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative data with 65,000 observations covering 7 countries over a decade. We distinguish between three strata of countries: lower stratum in income and urbanization, middle stratum, and upper stratum. The paper breaks ground by the breadth and time length of the sample. We find that purchases form the majority of rural food consumption whether in favorable or unfavorable agroecological zones and over country and income strata and for most food products. Rural nonfarm employment (as a cash source) plays an important role in household food purchases across all study countries and food products. Policy implications include the importance of food purchase markets and supply chains to and in rural areas as well as nonfarm employment. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1388602025-11-12T04:48:12Z The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies Dzanku, F.M. Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda Lenis Onipede Reardon, Thomas food security food consumption sub-saharan africa livelihoods rural communities We analyze rural households’ purchases of food (cereals and non-cereals) in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative data with 65,000 observations covering 7 countries over a decade. We distinguish between three strata of countries: lower stratum in income and urbanization, middle stratum, and upper stratum. The paper breaks ground by the breadth and time length of the sample. We find that purchases form the majority of rural food consumption whether in favorable or unfavorable agroecological zones and over country and income strata and for most food products. Rural nonfarm employment (as a cash source) plays an important role in household food purchases across all study countries and food products. Policy implications include the importance of food purchase markets and supply chains to and in rural areas as well as nonfarm employment. 2024-03 2024-02-02T09:46:19Z 2024-02-02T09:46:19Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138860 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Dzanku, F.M., Liverpool-Tasie, L.S.O. & Reardon, T. (2024). The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies. Global Food Security, 40: 100739, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100739 |
| spellingShingle | food security food consumption sub-saharan africa livelihoods rural communities Dzanku, F.M. Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda Lenis Onipede Reardon, Thomas The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies |
| title | The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies |
| title_full | The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies |
| title_fullStr | The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies |
| title_full_unstemmed | The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies |
| title_short | The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies |
| title_sort | importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in africa implications for food security strategies |
| topic | food security food consumption sub-saharan africa livelihoods rural communities |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138860 |
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