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ArticleDevelopment Southern Africa2024

Patterns and trends in household food security in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.

Farirai Rusere, Lori Hunter, Mark Collinson, Wayne Twine

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Article in Development Southern Africa, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Farirai RusereSchool of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, and Wits Rural Knowledge Hub, Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Lori HunterCU Population Center, Institute of Behavioural Science, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
Mark CollinsonMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Acornhoek, South Africa.
Wayne TwineSchool of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, and Wits Rural Knowledge Hub, Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Funding

University of Colorado Population CenterP2CHD066613 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI JANE A MENKEN · 2015 to 2026
$3.7M
Environmental Variability, Migration, and Rural LivelihoodsR03HD061428 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI HUNTER, LORI M. · 2010 to 2011
$144k
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD066613NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD061428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study examines patterns and trends in household food security in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, from 2010 to 2019. We use data from a household panel nested in the Agincourt Health and Socio- Demographic Surveillance System. Findings indicate that there have been improvements in household food security in this rural setting over the last decade. By polychoric principal component analysis, an aggregate food security index was constructed and we observed a small, yet important, proportion of households (7.8 %) that remained chronically food insecure. An ordered probit model was used to estimate the determinants of food security. Findings reveal that the observed differences in household food security status are as a result of differences in socioeconomic status. We therefore recommend that focus must be placed on identifying economic opportunities and empowering the chronically food insecure households if universal household food security is to be attained in rural South Africa and beyond.

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Dietary diversityFood accessFood availabilityFood securityRural households

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PMID38318211
PMCPMC10843846

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