ArticlePublic health nutrition2020
How do context variables affect food insecurity in Mexico? Implications for policy and governance.
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- Food Security in a College Community: Assessing Availability, Access, and Consumption Patterns in a Mexican Context.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- What Opportunities Exist for Making the Food Supply Nutrition Friendly? A Policy Space Analysis in Mexico.International journal of health policy and management · 2022Article
- Food insecurity measurement and prevalence estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in a repeated cross-sectional survey in Mexico.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess, from a systems perspective, how climate vulnerability and socio-economic and political differences at the municipal and state levels explain food insecurity in Mexico.
designUsing a cross-sectional design with official secondary data, we estimated three-level multinomial hierarchical linear models.
settingThe study setting is Mexico's states and municipalities in 2014.
participantsHeads of households in a representative sample of the general population.
resultsAt the municipal level, vulnerability to climate disasters and a poverty index were significant predictors of food insecurity after adjusting for household-level variables. At the state level, gross domestic product and the number of nutrition programmes helped explain different levels of food insecurity but change in political party did not. Predictors varied in strength and significance according to the level of food insecurity.
conclusionsFindings evidence that, beyond food assistance programmes and household characteristics, multiple variables operating at different levels - like climate vulnerability and poverty - contribute to explain the degree of food insecurity. Food security governance is a well-suited multisectoral approach to address the complex challenge of hunger and access to a nutritious diet.
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