Are Determinants of Rural and Urban Food Security and Nutritional Status Different? Some Insights from Mozambique

Undernutrition of children 0–60 months old in Mozambique is much higher in rural than in urban areas. Food security is about the same, although substantial regional differences exist. Given these outcomes, we hypothesized that the determinants of food security and nutritional status in rural and urb...

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Published in:World development 1999-11, Vol.27 (11), p.1955-1975
Main Authors: Garrett, James L., Ruel, Marie T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Children
Comparative studies
Developing countries
Economic models
Food
Food security
Food supply
LDCs
Malnutrition
Mozambique
Nutrition
Nutritional status
Regional disparities
Regression analysis
rural
Rural Areas
Rural development
Rural Urban Differences
Security
Socioeconomic status
urban
Urban Affairs
Urban Areas
Urbanization
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Summary:Undernutrition of children 0–60 months old in Mozambique is much higher in rural than in urban areas. Food security is about the same, although substantial regional differences exist. Given these outcomes, we hypothesized that the determinants of food security and nutritional status in rural and urban areas of Mozambique would differ as well. Yet we find that the determinants of food insecurity and malnutrition, and the magnitudes of their effects, are very nearly the same, although some differentiation in determinants of undernutrition does begin to appear among children 24–60 months old. The difference in observed outcomes appears primarily due to differences in the levels of critical determinants rather than in the nature of the determinants themselves.
ISSN:0305-750X
1873-5991
DOI:10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00091-1