The Household Food Security Implications of Disrupted Access to Basic Services in Five Cities in the Global South

Cameron McCordic, Bruce Frayne, Naomi Sunu and Clare Williamson
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Cameron McCordic: School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Bruce Frayne: School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Naomi Sunu: School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Clare Williamson: School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-20

Abstract: COVID-19 has caused significant disruptions regarding the extent to which households can access basic services and resources in cities around the world. Previous studies have indicated a predictive relationship between the consistency of resource access and food access among urban households. These investigations, however, have predominantly been isolated to Southern Africa and have not accounted for other dimensions of food security. To test whether these results are observable outside Southern Africa, and with a more multidimensional measure of food security, this investigation proposes a method for building an index of urban household food access, utilization and stability. The scores for the constructed index are then compared across household survey samples collected from five cities in the Global South. The investigation then assesses the predictive relationship between the consistency of household resource access and this more multidimensional index of food insecurity. While the general trend of inconsistent resource access predicting food insecurity is confirmed, there are geographic differences in the strength and quality of this relationship. These findings suggest that the resource access disruptions inflicted by COVID-19 will likely have a heterogeneous impact on urban food security dependent upon the affected resource and the city in which a given household resides.

Keywords: COVID-19; urban food security; infrastructure; basic services; Global South; cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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