Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones
Background Urbanization influences food systems and food security, but research on these associations in low- and middle-income countries remain limited, partly because of the binary and unstandardized “urban compared with rural” classifications. Objectives To develop a community urbanicity scale,...
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2024
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| author | Graham, Elizabeth Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L. McGready, John Mui, Yeeli Manohar, Swetha Neupane, Sumanta Fanzo, Jessica West, Keith P., Jr. |
| author_browse | Fanzo, Jessica Graham, Elizabeth Manohar, Swetha McGready, John Mui, Yeeli Neupane, Sumanta Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L. West, Keith P., Jr. |
| author_facet | Graham, Elizabeth Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L. McGready, John Mui, Yeeli Manohar, Swetha Neupane, Sumanta Fanzo, Jessica West, Keith P., Jr. |
| author_sort | Graham, Elizabeth |
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| description | Background
Urbanization influences food systems and food security, but research on these associations in low- and middle-income countries remain limited, partly because of the binary and unstandardized “urban compared with rural” classifications.
Objectives
To develop a community urbanicity scale, to assess its associations with household food security, and to explore whether agricultural occupation modifies this relationship across the 3 agroecological zones (mountain, hill, Tarai) of Nepal.
Methods
Data came from a nationally and agroecologically representative, multistaged 2013 agri-food system survey of 4285 households with children <5 y in 63 communities (wards) in Nepal. A novel community-level urbanicity scale was constructed using factor analysis that included 8 domains. Multilevel mixed effects logistic regression was used to assess associations between urbanicity and household food security (measured using the validated Household Food Insecurity Access Scale), and to investigate modifying effects of agricultural occupation.
Results
Urbanicity scores ranged between 13 and 69, of a possible 80 points. Most agricultural households in the mountains (67%) and hills (54%) were categorized food insecure. Increases in urbanicity were negatively associated with food insecurity, controlling for other factors (odds ratio [OR] per 10-unit urbanicity difference OR: 0.82; confidence interval [CI]: 0.71, 0.94; P ≤ 0.05). Agricultural occupation may have positively influenced this association though was not a statistically significant effect measure modifier (P = 0.07).
Conclusions
The novel scale shows more nuance within Nepal’s agroecological zones, which had similar urbanicity-to-food security relationships as well as overlapping urbanicity score distributions. Research and policy efforts should consider using scales providing more precise urbanicity measurement, and thus informative assessments on its role in predicting food insecurity, especially in agriculturally reliant populations. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1451382025-10-26T12:50:43Z Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones Graham, Elizabeth Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L. McGready, John Mui, Yeeli Manohar, Swetha Neupane, Sumanta Fanzo, Jessica West, Keith P., Jr. capacity development food security development urbanization livelihoods Background Urbanization influences food systems and food security, but research on these associations in low- and middle-income countries remain limited, partly because of the binary and unstandardized “urban compared with rural” classifications. Objectives To develop a community urbanicity scale, to assess its associations with household food security, and to explore whether agricultural occupation modifies this relationship across the 3 agroecological zones (mountain, hill, Tarai) of Nepal. Methods Data came from a nationally and agroecologically representative, multistaged 2013 agri-food system survey of 4285 households with children <5 y in 63 communities (wards) in Nepal. A novel community-level urbanicity scale was constructed using factor analysis that included 8 domains. Multilevel mixed effects logistic regression was used to assess associations between urbanicity and household food security (measured using the validated Household Food Insecurity Access Scale), and to investigate modifying effects of agricultural occupation. Results Urbanicity scores ranged between 13 and 69, of a possible 80 points. Most agricultural households in the mountains (67%) and hills (54%) were categorized food insecure. Increases in urbanicity were negatively associated with food insecurity, controlling for other factors (odds ratio [OR] per 10-unit urbanicity difference OR: 0.82; confidence interval [CI]: 0.71, 0.94; P ≤ 0.05). Agricultural occupation may have positively influenced this association though was not a statistically significant effect measure modifier (P = 0.07). Conclusions The novel scale shows more nuance within Nepal’s agroecological zones, which had similar urbanicity-to-food security relationships as well as overlapping urbanicity score distributions. Research and policy efforts should consider using scales providing more precise urbanicity measurement, and thus informative assessments on its role in predicting food insecurity, especially in agriculturally reliant populations. 2024-06 2024-06-11T16:39:48Z 2024-06-11T16:39:48Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145138 en https://doi.org/10.6133/apjcn.092017.04 https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab079 https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzy058 https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12434 https://doi.org/10.1177/0379572116657267 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12010252 https://doi.org/10.1177/0379572120916343 https://doi.org/10.12691/jfs-6-2-5 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247085 Open Access Elsevier Graham, Elizabeth; Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L.; McGready, John; Mui, Yeeli; Manohar, Swetha; Neupane, Sumanta; Fanzo, Jessica; and West, Keith P., Jr. 2024. Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones. Current Developments in Nutrition 8(6): 103773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.103773 |
| spellingShingle | capacity development food security development urbanization livelihoods Graham, Elizabeth Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L. McGready, John Mui, Yeeli Manohar, Swetha Neupane, Sumanta Fanzo, Jessica West, Keith P., Jr. Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones |
| title | Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones |
| title_full | Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones |
| title_fullStr | Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones |
| title_short | Measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across Nepal’s agroecological zones |
| title_sort | measuring community urbanicity and its influence on household food security across nepal s agroecological zones |
| topic | capacity development food security development urbanization livelihoods |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145138 |
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