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022 _a1876-4517
022 _a1876-4525 (Online)
024 8 _ahttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-015-0517-y
040 _aMX-TxCIM
041 _aeng
100 1 _9890
_aKassie, M.
_gSocioeconomics Program
_8INT3096
245 1 0 _aGendered food security in rural Malawi :
_bwhy is women’s food security status lower?
260 _aNetherlands :
_bSpringer,
_c2015.
500 _aPeer review
520 _aGendered food security gaps between female- and male-headed households (FHHs and MHHs) can be decomposed into two sets of components: those explained by observable differences in levels of resource use, and those due to unobserved differences affecting the returns to the resources used. Employing exogenous switching ordered probit and binary probit regression models, this paper examines the gendered food security gap and its causes in rural Malawi.We conducted a counterfactual analysis and found that the food security of FHHs would improve significantly if they had the same levels of resource use asMHHs. However, even if FHHs had the same levels of resource use as MHHs, the gendered food security gap would not be closed because of the differences in the returns to those resources. Such differences in returns to resources explain 40 % (45 %) of the observed gendered chronic (transitory) food insecurity gap and 54 % (19 %) of the food break-even (surplus) gap. Further analysis suggests that the intensity with which sustainable agricultural practices have been adopted has a greater impact on the food security of FHHs than on MHHs.
526 _aMCRP
_bFP1
536 _aSocioeconomics Program
546 _aText in English
591 _bCIMMYT Informa No. 1960
591 _bKassie, M. : Not in IRS Staff list but CIMMYT Affiliation
594 _aINT3096
594 _aINT2677
650 7 _aFood security
_gAGROVOC
_2
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_aGender
_2AGROVOC
651 7 _2AGROVOC
_91319
_aMalawi
700 1 _92172
_aStage, J.
700 1 _92173
_aTeklewold, H.
700 1 _aErenstein, O.
_gFormerly Socioeconomics Program
_8INT2677
_9848
773 0 _wu93816
_x1876-4525
_dNetherlands : Springer, 2015.
_tFood Security
_gv. 7, no. 6, p. 1299-1320
856 4 _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12665/1141
_yAccess only for CIMMYT Staff
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