Food consumption by the african poor

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Food expenditure by households is affected by demographic, cultural and economic factors. Regarding the latter, studies have shown that the

consumption of healthy foods is sensitive to increments of income and co-related variables, such as employment. The prevalent hypotheses are that overnutrition impacts mainly the urban

middle class as the poor consume less processed diets, and that the poor’s expenditure share on healthy foods — such as animal protein and beans, and vitamin-rich vegetables and fruits — is

comparatively smaller. Now, Michael Dolislager from the Messiah University and colleagues have systematically tested these hypotheses using household data covering a range of food groups in

Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria. First, the authors analysed the shares of healthy and unhealthy foods in household consumption expenditure (from purchases, own production and gifts/transfers)

over the income gradations of households below and above the poverty line. Then, they explored the non-income determinants of those shares using national Living Standards Measurement Study

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Juliana Gil. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Gil, J. Food consumption by the African poor. _Nat Food_ 3, 676 (2022).

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