Rapidly rising food prices and the experience of food insecurity in urban Ethiopia: Impacts on health and well-being
Rapidly rising food prices and the experience of food insecurity in urban Ethiopia: Impacts on health and well-being
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.018
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发表时间：
2012-12-01
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5.4
通讯作者：
Belachew, Tefera
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作者：
Hadley, Craig;Stevenson, Edward Geoffrey Jedediah;Belachew, Tefera
自2007年以来粮食价格的上涨被广泛认为是世界贫困人口面临粮食不安全危机的信号。学者们试图通过进行模拟研究、评估人体测量结果和评估基于经验的粮食安全措施的转变，来绘制危机对粮食安全的影响。然而，很少有研究调查对最脆弱的人产生的更广泛的影响，以及食品价格的快速上涨如何在受影响最大的人的日常生活中发挥作用。我们用定性的方法调查了食品价格上涨对埃塞俄比亚城市贫困人口的影响。2011年8月，在吉姆马省进行了20次半结构化访谈。这些访谈中确定的主题包括应对战略、消费优先事项以及对共享机构网络的影响。我们的结果表明，几种重要的文化习俗，包括葬礼和咖啡仪式，都受到了价格上涨的破坏，受访者将食品价格与日益加剧的粮食不安全联系在一起，这反过来又与高压力、精神健康不良和身体健康下降有关。我们的结果与其他几项研究一致，这些研究表明，粮食不安全具有一系列非营养后果，部分原因是粮食的高度社会性。认识到粮食不安全对日常生活各方面的影响，如与邻居的互动和羞耻感，提请注意粮食价格上涨有可能对社区社会资本产生侵蚀作用，并增加受影响人民在未来冲击中的脆弱性。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
The rise in food prices since 2007 is widely recognized as signaling a crisis of food insecurity among the world's poor. Scholars sought to chart the impacts of the crisis on food insecurity by conducting simulation studies, assessing anthropometric outcomes, and evaluating shifts in experience-based measures of food security. Few studies, however, have investigated the broader impacts on those most vulnerable and how rapid rises in food prices play out in the everyday lives of those most impacted. We used qualitative methods to investigate the impact of the rise in food prices on the urban poor in Ethiopia. Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted in August 2011, in the provincial town of jimma. Themes identified in these interviews included coping strategies, consumption priorities, and impacts on institutional networks of sharing. Our results suggest that several important cultural practices, including funerals and coffee ceremonies, were undermined by the rise in prices, and that respondents linked food prices to increasing food insecurity, which they in turn linked to high levels of stress, poor mental health, and reduced physical health. Our results are consistent with several other studies that suggest that food insecurity has a range of non-nutritional consequences, and that these are due in part to the highly social nature of food. Recognizing the effects of food insecurity on dimensions of everyday life such as interaction with neighbors, and feelings of shame, draws attention to the potential for food price increases to have erosive effects on communal social capital, and to increase the vulnerability of affected peoples to future shocks. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.