Food Consumption Behavior: Rural Sierra Leone and Kano State, Nigeria

摘要

The study reported herein had two goals: to analyze the effects of economic policies on food consumption in semi-subsistence households; and to obtain data on food consumption patterns and determinants. The authors applied both single equation regressions and household-firm systems analysis to data collected during 1974-75 in Sierra Leone and Kano State, Nigeria. The first five chapters deal with Sierra Leone and cover estimating food consumption, food consumption patterns, single-equation regressions, systems estimation of the household-firm model, and food flows and simulations. The sixth chapter covers the Kano State village data and a final chapter details conclusions.