Income and food Engel curves in Rwanda: a household microdata analysis
| Autor: | Yves Surry, Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, Ranjula Bali Swain, Aimable Nsabimana |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
030309 nutrition & dietetics Psychological intervention Microdata (statistics) lcsh:TX341-641 03 medical and health sciences 0502 economics and business Engel curve medicine ddc:330 lcsh:Agricultural industries 050207 economics Socioeconomics Household food demand 0303 health sciences business.industry 05 social sciences digestive oral and skin physiology Rwanda lcsh:HD9000-9495 medicine.disease Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) language.human_language Environmental studies Malnutrition Sub-Sahara Africa Agriculture Food policy language Survey data collection Food Engel curve business lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Agricultural and Food Economics, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2193-7532 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40100-020-00154-4 |
| Popis: | Food insecurity and malnutrition are still major challenges for large proportions of households in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical literature on food demand, however, suggests mixed evidence on the roles of income and other socio-economic attributes on food demand. This study analyzes the food demand among households in Rwanda, based on nationally representative household expenditures and demographic (EICV4, 2013/14) survey data. The results show that poor households consume merely food containing higher carbohydrates and starches. Further, the study finds that the majority of rural households spend almost nothing on micronutrients from animal products, suggesting that effective targeted food policy interventions for poor and rural households may play an important role in reducing the incidence of malnutrition through improving food diets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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