Household Behavior on Food Security During an Economic Crisis

Irene Kamenidou (), Konstantinos Rigas and Constantinos-Vasilios Priporas
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Irene Kamenidou: Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Kavala
Konstantinos Rigas: Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Kavala
Constantinos-Vasilios Priporas: Middlesex University, Business School Hendon Campus, The Burroughs

Chapter 14 in Food Security and Sustainability, 2017, pp 243-261 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Food security as a concept attracts the attention of policy makers, practitioners, and academics around the world (Jones et al. 2013), as it is considered one of the key essentials of life (Pfeiffer et al. 2015), since it is related to individual well-being (Magaña-Lemus and Lara-Álvarez 2015) and because food scarcity or food insecurity can affect almost every facet of society (Jones et al. 2013). A household (microlevel) is considered food-secure when it has the ability to acquire the food needed by its members (Pinstrup-Andersen 2009). Timmer (2012) asserts that understanding the behavioral dimensions of food security is an important step in learning how to prevent food crises.

Keywords: Food Security; Food Safety; Food Insecurity; Food Access; Secondary Level Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40790-6_14

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