Olumba, Chukwudi, Olumba, Cynthia and Okpara, Uche ORCID: 0000-0003-0851-0024 (2023) Household headship, resource ownership and food security: new evidence from Southeast Nigerian cities. Scientific African, 22:e01974. pp. 1-8. ISSN 2468-2276 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01974)

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Abstract

In cities with deeply entrenched sociocultural/patriarchal norms, female-headed households (FHHs) and male-headed households (MHHs) often have unequal access to economic resources and opportunities, which can lead to gender gaps in food security. Male control of economic resources means that women and FHHs are frequently less able to invest in and achieve food security goals. Using an estimated food security line constructed from a set of household food expenditure data retrieved from the 2018/19 Nigeria Living Standards Survey (to delineate households as food secure and food insecure), as well as a nonlinear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition model, this study investigates how household headship and resource ownership contribute to gendered food (in)security gaps in Nigerian cities. The study offers two main findings. First, there are significant food security inequalities between MHHs and FHHs. Second, the differences in the level of use of household resources/assets explain 56 % of the observed gendered food sec

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	gender; food security; resource ownership; nonlinear blinder-Oaxaca decomposition model; urban farming households
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Centre for Society, Environment and Development (CSED)
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2024 09:23
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48197

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