HCP discussion paper, no. 12 : compounding vulnerability : a model of urban household food security
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2017-12
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Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP)
Abstract
This discussion paper proposes a model to help explain the relationship between access to urban infrastructure systems and household vulnerability to food insecurity. Food access in cities is primarily achieved through food purchases, where households convert assets into food at retail locations. When a household falls into food insecurity through trading household assets for resources, it is often trapped by a host of resource deprivations that have occurred over time. In this manner, the process compounds the vulnerability of a household to food insecurity. At the level of the individual household, vulnerability is defined in part by the ability to access essential resources and services.
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URBANIZATION, LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS, INCLUSIVE GROWTH, FOOD SECURITY, INFRASTRUCTURE, CITIES, VULNERABILITY, MODELLING, ACCESS TO RESOURCES, URBAN POOR, POVERTY, KINGSTON, MAPUTO, MEXICO CITY, NAIROBI, GLOBAL SOUTH