How the urban poor define and measure food security in Cambodia and Nepal
How the urban poor define and measure food security in Cambodia and Nepal
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DOI：
10.1177/0956247819863246
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发表时间：
2019-07-18
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Tacoli, Cecilia
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作者：
Boonyabancha, Somsook;Kerr, Thomas;Tacoli, Cecilia
城市粮食安全，或缺乏粮食安全，在全球政策辩论中引起越来越多的关注。然而，在这些对话中，城市穷人的声音明显缺失。为了填补这一空白，草根社区组织拥有数十年收集自己社区数据并采取行动改善条件的经验，决定询问柬埔寨和尼泊尔的城市贫困人口如何定义和衡量粮食安全，他们面临哪些关键挑战在日常努力将食物摆上餐桌以及哪些行动可能会有所帮助。他们的研究结果表明，获得充足的饮食是亚洲低收入社区面临的一项重大挑战，饥饿现象普遍存在，尽管家庭之间和家庭内部存在很大差异和波动。它们还突出了城市贫困妇女非凡的适应能力，以及她们采取多种战略来利用微薄的预算，确保有东西吃，尽管有时这还不够。
Urban food security, or its lack, is attracting growing interest in global policy debates. Glaringly missing in these conversations, however, are the voices of the urban poor. To fill this gap, grassroots community organizations, with decades-long experience collecting data on their own communities and taking action to improve conditions, decided to ask the urban poor in Cambodia and Nepal how they define and measure food security, what key challenges they face in the daily struggle to put food on the table and what actions might help. Their findings show that access to adequate diets is a major challenge for low-income communities in Asia, and that hunger is widespread, although with great variations and fluctuations between and within households. They also highlight the extraordinary resilience of urban poor women and their multiple strategies to stretch meagre budgets and make sure there is something to eat, even though sometimes this is not enough.