Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles
This paper examines food insecurity in Malawi. Conceiving food security as tridimensional, it is shown using Quantile, logistic, and OLS regressions that food security in Malawi is a function of both supply and demand factors. Specifically, food security as proxied by dietary diversity, reported foo...
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| author | Matchaya, Greenwell C. Chilonda, Pius |
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| description | This paper examines food insecurity in Malawi. Conceiving food security as tridimensional, it is shown using Quantile, logistic, and OLS regressions that food security in Malawi is a function of both supply and demand factors. Specifically, food security as proxied by dietary diversity, reported food security, and food end time is a function of farm level production as proxied by farm level incomes. It is also a function of credit accessed, age and sex of a household head, while access to the markets, extension information, radio ownership, assets such as housing and adoption of a cash crop (tobacco). Education and consumer worker ratio are also important signifying the role that knowledge and labour play in deciding household level food security. The results also show that the impact of the regressors on food security depends on the level of food security in question such that in general factors with a positive effect on food security have a greater impact on food insecure households than on households that are better off. Given the preponderance of evidence in this paper it appears that policies that seek to enhance market access, improve market opportunities, enhance extension services, enhance informal education, encourage cash cropping, and support household level consolidation of assets would be useful for enhancing household level food security. |
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| spelling | CGSpace403692023-06-13T04:33:43Z Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles Matchaya, Greenwell C. Chilonda, Pius food security households assets ownership farming systems farmers farm income economic aspects statistical methods quantitative analysis economic analysis regression analysis models crop production cash crops This paper examines food insecurity in Malawi. Conceiving food security as tridimensional, it is shown using Quantile, logistic, and OLS regressions that food security in Malawi is a function of both supply and demand factors. Specifically, food security as proxied by dietary diversity, reported food security, and food end time is a function of farm level production as proxied by farm level incomes. It is also a function of credit accessed, age and sex of a household head, while access to the markets, extension information, radio ownership, assets such as housing and adoption of a cash crop (tobacco). Education and consumer worker ratio are also important signifying the role that knowledge and labour play in deciding household level food security. The results also show that the impact of the regressors on food security depends on the level of food security in question such that in general factors with a positive effect on food security have a greater impact on food insecure households than on households that are better off. Given the preponderance of evidence in this paper it appears that policies that seek to enhance market access, improve market opportunities, enhance extension services, enhance informal education, encourage cash cropping, and support household level consolidation of assets would be useful for enhancing household level food security. 2012 2014-06-13T14:47:29Z 2014-06-13T14:47:29Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40369 en Limited Access Matchaya, Greenwell; Chilonda, Pius. 2012. Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles. Applied Econometrics and International Development, 12(2):165-191. |
| spellingShingle | food security households assets ownership farming systems farmers farm income economic aspects statistical methods quantitative analysis economic analysis regression analysis models crop production cash crops Matchaya, Greenwell C. Chilonda, Pius Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles |
| title | Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles |
| title_full | Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles |
| title_fullStr | Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles |
| title_short | Estimating effects of constraints on food security in Malawi: policy lessons from regressions quantiles |
| title_sort | estimating effects of constraints on food security in malawi policy lessons from regressions quantiles |
| topic | food security households assets ownership farming systems farmers farm income economic aspects statistical methods quantitative analysis economic analysis regression analysis models crop production cash crops |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40369 |
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