HOUSEHOLDS’ FOOD CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOUR DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: EVIDENCE FROM RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN SOUTH AFRICA

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dc.contributor.authorLefophane, Hilda
dc.contributor.authorMkasi, Felicity Ntombikayiso
dc.contributor.authorLefophane, Mapula Hildah
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-22T19:55:23Z
dc.date.available2024-07-22T19:55:23Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-30
dc.description.abstractThe food consumption behaviour of households has been affected by the lockdown restrictions that were implemented to reduce the COVID-19 infection rate. This study was aimed at analysing the food consumption behaviour of rural households during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. To achieve this, a simple random technique was used to collect data from 120 in Merry Pebble (MP) Stream Village. Thereafter, an Ordered Probit Model was used to examine the extent to which households have increased, decreased or maintained the same quantity of food consumed during COVID-19. The results indicated that 46.7% of the rural households had consumed less food during COVID-19 pandemic, 32.5% consumed about the same amount of food, and 20.8% consumed more food. The variables that contributed towards a decrease in food consumption are employment status, household size, loss of income, and social relief grants. On the contrary, bulk buying and food parcels had stabilised food consumption, while the number of employed people in a household and food bought from restaurants contributed towards an increase in food consumption during COVID-19 pandemic. With regard to consumption behaviour per food item, fresh produce, meat, snacks and fast food were consumed less during COVID-19, while there was a constant consumption in dairy products, and an increase in consumption of canned food, frozen food, prepared food, grains and water. The study recommends that the government should continue with the economic and social relief programmes that were created during COVID-19, as they play an important role in increasing and stabilising food consumption by rural households.en
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dc.identifier.citationApplied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023): APSTRACT ,
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.19041/APSTRACT/2023/2/4
dc.identifier.eissn1789-7874
dc.identifier.issn1789-221X
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.jatitleAPSTRACT
dc.identifier.jtitleApplied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/375997
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/apstract/article/view/11445
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerHilda Lefophane, Felicity, Hildah
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemicen
dc.subjecthouseholdsen
dc.subjectfood consumption behaviouren
dc.titleHOUSEHOLDS’ FOOD CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOUR DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: EVIDENCE FROM RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN SOUTH AFRICAen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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