Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class
Robust income growth combined with the highest urban population growth in the world is driving very rapid changes in the food system of Sub-Saharan Africa. Demand is increasing for higher quality foods, including fresh produce, meat and dairy products as well as more processed foods, with poorer nut...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2019
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147030 |
| _version_ | 1855520561119100928 |
|---|---|
| author | Smart, Jenny Tschirley, David Smart, Francis C. |
| author_browse | Smart, Francis C. Smart, Jenny Tschirley, David |
| author_facet | Smart, Jenny Tschirley, David Smart, Francis C. |
| author_sort | Smart, Jenny |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | Robust income growth combined with the highest urban population growth in the world is driving very rapid changes in the food system of Sub-Saharan Africa. Demand is increasing for higher quality foods, including fresh produce, meat and dairy products as well as more processed foods, with poorer nutritional value. The overweight and obesity epidemic that first began among developed nations is not sparing the expanding middle classes within developing countries, leading to a double burden of over and under nourished populations in these areas. As rapidly expanding towns and cities proliferate across Sub-Saharan Africa, urban areas can also become deserts for fresh or less-processed nutritious foods. Urban farming has been one way that the food desert challenge in urban areas is ameliorated, and in Mozambique, even in the largest city center of Maputo, one in ten households owns their own farm land. In the context of rapid urbanization and income growth in Mozambique, this paper finds that both growing incomes and the consumption of processed foods are associated with a worsening of negative factors in the diet. Furthermore, urbanization, controlling for income, is associated more strongly with a worsening of negative factors than with an improvement in positive factors in the diet. However the effect on nutrition of owning one’s own farm, controlling for the share of others in the household’s area that have a farm, is positive and significant for urban households, primarily driven by these households purchasing fewer unhealthy foods. These findings have important implications concerning the role of urban farming for improving dietary quality. |
| format | Conference Paper |
| id | CGSpace147030 |
| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2019 |
| publishDateRange | 2019 |
| publishDateSort | 2019 |
| publisher | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association |
| publisherStr | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | CGSpace1470302025-02-24T06:47:10Z Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class Smart, Jenny Tschirley, David Smart, Francis C. income urbanization processed foods middle classes nutrition markets food supply diet quality diet food systems dietary diversity Robust income growth combined with the highest urban population growth in the world is driving very rapid changes in the food system of Sub-Saharan Africa. Demand is increasing for higher quality foods, including fresh produce, meat and dairy products as well as more processed foods, with poorer nutritional value. The overweight and obesity epidemic that first began among developed nations is not sparing the expanding middle classes within developing countries, leading to a double burden of over and under nourished populations in these areas. As rapidly expanding towns and cities proliferate across Sub-Saharan Africa, urban areas can also become deserts for fresh or less-processed nutritious foods. Urban farming has been one way that the food desert challenge in urban areas is ameliorated, and in Mozambique, even in the largest city center of Maputo, one in ten households owns their own farm land. In the context of rapid urbanization and income growth in Mozambique, this paper finds that both growing incomes and the consumption of processed foods are associated with a worsening of negative factors in the diet. Furthermore, urbanization, controlling for income, is associated more strongly with a worsening of negative factors than with an improvement in positive factors in the diet. However the effect on nutrition of owning one’s own farm, controlling for the share of others in the household’s area that have a farm, is positive and significant for urban households, primarily driven by these households purchasing fewer unhealthy foods. These findings have important implications concerning the role of urban farming for improving dietary quality. 2019-08-06 2024-06-21T09:10:39Z 2024-06-21T09:10:39Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147030 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146652 Open Access Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Smart, Jenny; Tschirley, David; and Smart, Francis. 2018. Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class. Presented at the 2018 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, United States, August 5-7, 2018. https://purl.umn.edu/276052 |
| spellingShingle | income urbanization processed foods middle classes nutrition markets food supply diet quality diet food systems dietary diversity Smart, Jenny Tschirley, David Smart, Francis C. Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class |
| title | Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class |
| title_full | Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class |
| title_fullStr | Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class |
| title_short | Food system transformation in Mozambique: An assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class |
| title_sort | food system transformation in mozambique an assessment of changing diet quality in the context of a rising middle class |
| topic | income urbanization processed foods middle classes nutrition markets food supply diet quality diet food systems dietary diversity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147030 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT smartjenny foodsystemtransformationinmozambiqueanassessmentofchangingdietqualityinthecontextofarisingmiddleclass AT tschirleydavid foodsystemtransformationinmozambiqueanassessmentofchangingdietqualityinthecontextofarisingmiddleclass AT smartfrancisc foodsystemtransformationinmozambiqueanassessmentofchangingdietqualityinthecontextofarisingmiddleclass |