Do agri-food market incentives improve food security and nutrition indicators? a microsimulation evaluation for Kenya.

ABSTRACT: The sustainable development goal #2 aims at ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Given the numbers of food insecure and malnourished people on the rise, the heterogeneity of nutritional statuses and needs, and the even worse context of COVID-19 pandemic, this has become an urgent challenge for food-related policies. This paper provides a comprehensive microsimulation approach to evaluate economic policies on food access, sufficiency (energy) and adequacy (protein, fat, carbohydrate) at household level. The improvement in market access conditions in Kenya is simulated as an application case of this method, using original insights from households' surveys and biochemical and nutritional information by food item. Simulation's results suggest that improving market access increases food purc

SUBMITTER: Ramos MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8483734 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature