Differences in food insecurity across the rural/urban spectrum—The role of trade flows

There has been little work relating food flows with food insecurity, and how inter‐county trading can drive differences across the rural/urban divide. Using rural–urban continuum codes in combination with a new data set on food flows at the county level we examine the correlation between food insecu...

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Published in:Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2022-04, Vol.1 (1), p.93-107
Main Authors: Beverly, Mariah, Neill, Clinton L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classification
Consumers
Food
food insecurity
Food prices
Food security
Food service
Food supply
intracountry trade
Manufacturers
Manufacturing
Nutrition
Oaxaca‐Blinder decomposition
Rural areas
rural/urban divide
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Summary:There has been little work relating food flows with food insecurity, and how inter‐county trading can drive differences across the rural/urban divide. Using rural–urban continuum codes in combination with a new data set on food flows at the county level we examine the correlation between food insecurity and trade. Results indicate heterogeneous impacts of food trade flows and county types on food insecurity rates. From Oaxaca‐Blinder decompositions we find that differences between rural and metropolitan counties are largely due to explained factors, but differences between nonmetropolitan, nonrural counties and the other county types are unexplained factors.
ISSN:2769-2485
2769-2485
DOI:10.1002/jaa2.11