| dc.contributor.author | Dzanku, F.M. |
| dc.contributor.author | Liverpool-Tasie, L.S.O. |
| dc.contributor.author | Reardon, T. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-02T09:35:02Z |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-02T09:35:02Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-01-23 |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dzanku, F.M., Liverpool-Tasie, L.S.O. & Reardon, T. (2024). The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: Implications for food security strategies. Global Food Security, 40: 100739, 1-16. |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2211-9124 |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/8387 |
| dc.description.abstract | We analyze rural households’ purchases of food (cereals and non-cereals) in Sub-Saharan Africa using nationally representative data with 65,000 observations covering 7 countries over a decade. We distinguish between three strata of countries: lower stratum in income and urbanization, middle stratum, and upper stratum. The paper breaks ground by the breadth and time length of the sample. We find that purchases form the majority of rural food consumption whether in favorable or unfavorable agroecological zones and over country and income strata and for most food products. Rural nonfarm employment (as a cash source) plays an important role in household food purchases across all study countries and food products. Policy implications include the importance of food purchase markets and supply chains to and in rural areas as well as nonfarm employment. |
| dc.description.sponsorship | United States Department of Agriculture |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Michigan State University |
| dc.format.extent | 1-16 |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.subject | Food Security |
| dc.subject | Food Consumption |
| dc.subject | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| dc.subject | Livelihoods |
| dc.subject | Rural Communities |
| dc.title | The importance and determinants of purchases in rural food consumption in Africa: implications for food security strategies |
| dc.type | Journal Article |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Ghana |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Michigan State University |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa |
| cg.coverage.region | West Africa |
| cg.coverage.country | Ghana |
| cg.coverage.hub | Headquarters and Western Africa Hub |
| cg.isijournal | ISI Journal |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and developing country institute |
| cg.iitasubject | Food Security |
| cg.iitasubject | Livelihoods |
| cg.iitasubject | Smallholder Farmers |
| cg.journal | Global Food Security |
| cg.notes | Open Access Article |
| cg.accessibilitystatus | Open Access |
| cg.reviewstatus | Peer Review |
| cg.usagerightslicense | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0) |
| cg.targetaudience | Scientists |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100739 |
| cg.iitaauthor.identifier | Lenis Liverpool-Tasie: 0000-0002-2990-5888 |
| cg.futureupdate.required | No |
| cg.identifier.issue | 100739 |
| cg.identifier.volume | 40 |
