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Determinants of Food Insecurity in Huntsville, Alabama, Metropolitan Area

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  • Bukenya, James O.

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This paper attempts to examine the food insecurity situation and identify the determinants of food insecurity in the Huntsville, Alabama, metropolitan statistical area. The primary data source was the household food security and socioeconomic survey administered to 700 households in August and September 2016. The main tools of analysis include descriptive statistics and a tobit regression model. The tobit model result revealed that household income; age, gender, and education of household head; and presence of children in the household were significant determinants of food insecurity in the study area.

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  • Bukenya, James O., 2017. "Determinants of Food Insecurity in Huntsville, Alabama, Metropolitan Area," Journal of Food Distribution Research, Food Distribution Research Society, vol. 48(1), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:jlofdr:274571
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.274571
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    1. Seid Sani & Biruk Kemaw, 2019. "Analysis of households food insecurity and its coping mechanisms in Western Ethiopia," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 7(1), pages 1-20, December.
    2. Vivekananda Das, 2023. "The effect of state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) eligibility on food insufficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 485-518, June.
    3. Theresa Tendai Rubhara & Maxwell Mudhara & Oluwaseun Samuel Oduniyi & Michael Akwasi Antwi, 2020. "Impacts of Cash Crop Production on Household Food Security for Smallholder Farmers: A Case of Shamva District, Zimbabwe," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-11, May.

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