| Title |
Urban food insecurity in the context of high food prices: a community based cross sectional study in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-680 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tesfay Birhane, Solomon Shiferaw, Seifu Hagos, Katia Sarla Mohindra |
| Abstract |
High food prices have emerged as a major global challenge, especially for poor and urban households in low-income countries such as Ethiopia. However, there is little empirical evidence on urban food security and how people living in urban areas are coping with sustained high food prices. This study aims to address this gap by investigating the food insecurity situation in urban Ethiopia -a country experiencing sustained high food prices, high rates of urban poverty, and a growing urban population. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 304 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 59 | 19% |
| Researcher | 27 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 18 | 6% |
| Other | 54 | 18% |
| Unknown | 101 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 38 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 33 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 31 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 31 | 10% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 20 | 7% |
| Other | 46 | 15% |
| Unknown | 107 | 35% |
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