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

Farirai Rusere, Lori Hunter, Mark Collinson and Wayne Twine

Development Southern Africa, 2024, vol. 41, issue 1, 164-182

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.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2023.2257737

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