Household capacities, vulnerabilities and food insecurity: Shifts in food insecurity in urban and rural Ethiopia during the 2008 food crisis

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1534-1542

  Hadley, Craig ^a   Linzer, Drew A ^a   Belachew, Tefera ^b   Mariam, Abebe Gebre ^b   Tessema, Fasil ^b   Lindstrom, David ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Coping strategies; Ethiopia; Food security; Hunger; Poverty; Rural; Semi urban; Shocks; Urban; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD SUPPLY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HUNGER; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COST; CROP LOSS; ETHIOPIA; FOOD CRISIS; FOOD INSECURITY; FOOD SECURITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MARKETING; NUTRITION; PLANT YIELD; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; SEMI URBAN AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGRICULTURE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHIOPIA; FOOD HABITS; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INCOME; NUTRITION SURVEYS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 80955130756     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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