Food access deficiencies in : prevalence and implications for agricultural interventions.
This study draws on a large sample of rural land-holding households in sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract
Our understanding of food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been hampered by limitations in the temporal and spatial representativeness of data. Food balance sheets provide scalable estimates of per capita food availability, but fail to represent food access, stability and their causal linkages. In contrast, rural household surveys represent detailed conditions for one or multiple points in time, but are influenced by survey timing and are often limited in geographical coverage. This study draws on a large sample of rural land-holding households in SSA (n = 6,353) to identify household level food access deficiencies and to understand the associations with rural livelihoods and food sourcing behavior throughout the year.
This research is an output of the Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning in Africa (SAIRLA) programme
Citation
Fraval S, Hammond J, Bogard JR, Ng’endo M, van Etten J, Herrero M, Oosting SJ, de Boer IJM, Lannerstad M, Teufel N, Lamanna C, Rosenstock TS, Pagella T, Vanlauwe B, Dontsop-Nguezet PM, Baines D, Carpena P, Njingulula P, Okafor C, Wichern J, Ayantunde A, Bosire C, Chesterman S, Kihoro E, Rao EJO, Skirrow T, Steinke J, Stirling CM, Yameogo V and van Wijk MT (2019) Food Access Deficiencies in Sub-saharan Africa: Prevalence and Implications for Agricultural Interventions. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 3:104. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2019.00104