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Title Labour migration and food security in rural Mozambique: Do agricultural investment, asset building and local employment matter?
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q69w7c7; https://escholarship.org/content/qt1q69w7c7/qt1q69w7c7.pdf
Date 2023
Author(s) Cau, Boaventura; Agadjanian, Victor
Abstract Connections between labour migration and food security of left-behind households are still poorly understood. Using data from two waves of a longitudinal survey conducted among ever-married women in rural Mozambique, we employ multi-level ordered logit and negative binomial regressions to examine over time three possible pathways linking mens migration and its economic success to food security of left-behind households-agricultural investment, household material assets and womens local gainful employment. Our analyses find a significant positive association between migrations success, proxied by remittances, and food security and show that this association is largely mediated by households possession of material assets.
Subject(s) Mozambique; agricultural investment; asset building; food security; labour migration; local employment; rural Africa
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source Journal of International Development, vol 35, iss 8
Rights public
Identifier qt1q69w7c7; info:doi/10.1002/jid.3781
Repository Berkeley - University of California
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