The threat of Covid-19 on food security: A modelling perspective of scenarios in the informal settlements in Windhoek

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dc.contributor.authorNickanor, Ndeyapo M.
dc.contributor.authorTawodzera, Godfrey
dc.contributor.authorKazembe, Lawrence N.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-21T08:07:30Z
dc.date.available2023-06-21T08:07:30Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractDue to the heterogeneity among households across locations, predicting the impacts of stay-at-home mitigation and lockdown strategies for COVID-19 control is crucial. In this study, we quantitatively assessed the effects of the Namibia government’s lockdown control measures on food insecurity in urban informal settlements with a focus on Windhoek, Namibia. We developed three types of conditional regression models to predict food insecurity prevalence (FIP) scenarios incorporating household frequency of food purchase (FFP) as the impacting factor, based on the Hungry Cities Food Matrix. Empirical data were derived from the 2017 African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) Windhoek study and applied univariate probit and bivariate partial observability models to postulate the relation between food insecurity and FFP within the context of stay-at-home disease mitigation strategy. The findings showed that FFP was positively correlated with the prevalence of food insecurity (r = 0.057, 95% CI: 0.0394, 0.085). Daily purchases portrayed a survivalist behaviour and were associated with increased food insecurity (coeff = 0.076, p = 0.05).en_US
dc.identifier.citationNickanor, N. M. et al. (2023). The threat of Covid-19 on food security: A modelling perspective of scenarios in the informal settlements in Windhoek. Land 2023, 12(3), 718. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030718en_US
dc.identifier.issn2073-445X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/land12030718
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/9130
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.subjectCovid-19en_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectInformal settlementsen_US
dc.subjectFood securityen_US
dc.subjectNamibiaen_US
dc.titleThe threat of Covid-19 on food security: A modelling perspective of scenarios in the informal settlements in Windhoeken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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