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Measuring Access to Food in Tanzania: A Food Basket Approach

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  • Cochrane, Nancy
  • D'Souza, Anna

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Household access to food over time in Tanzania is measured by comparing the cost of representative food baskets to household income. Consumption patterns, estimated using household data from the 2010/11 National Panel Survey conducted by Tanzania’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), show considerable diversity across the country. Maize (corn) dominates the diets in the surplus-maize-producing regions. Households in the maize-deficit regions in the north favor other sources of starch such as cassava and banana. The food baskets include 15 food groups that make up approximately 67 to 88 percent of average calorie intake. From 2008/09 to 2010/11, food basket costs rose rapidly in nominal terms but were stable in real terms. Combining food basket cost data and income data suggests that households in the bottom two income quintiles have significant difficulties with access to food.

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  • Cochrane, Nancy & D'Souza, Anna, 2015. "Measuring Access to Food in Tanzania: A Food Basket Approach," Economic Information Bulletin 198784, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersib:198784
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.198784
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    1. Christensen, Cheryl, 2018. "Progress and Challenges in Global Food Security," Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 0(01), February.
    2. Mandal, Bidisha & Cochrane, Nancy J., 2017. "A Comparison of Urban and Rural Food Consumption in Selected Regions of Tanzania," 2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois 258192, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    3. Katrin Reincke & Elisa Vilvert & Anja Fasse & Frieder Graef & Stefan Sieber & Marcos A. Lana, 2018. "Key factors influencing food security of smallholder farmers in Tanzania and the role of cassava as a strategic crop," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 10(4), pages 911-924, August.
    4. Cochrane, Nancy, 2016. "Constructing a Nutritionally Balanced Food Basket for Zanzibar: a Case Study," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 235662, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    5. Kapalata, Deogratius & Sakurai, Takeshi, 2020. "Adoption of Quality-Improving Rice Milling Technologies and Its Impacts on Millers' Performance in Morogoro Region, Tanzania," Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly Japanese Journal of Rural Economics), Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ), vol. 22.
    6. Nongbri, Baiarbor & Singh, Ram & Feroze, S.M. & Devarani, L. & Hemochandra, L., 2021. "Food and Nutritional Security of Farm Households in Meghalaya: A Food Basket Approach Using Temporal and Spatial Analysis," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 0(Number 2), June.

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