@article{Khor:277244,
      recid = {277244},
      author = {Khor, L.Y. and Zeller, M.},
      title = {Storing a staple crop for own consumption: Linkages to  food security},
      address = {2018-07},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {We examine in our study the effect on food security from  storing more of a harvested staple crop for own  consumption. The analysis is based on survey data from more  than 1,800 households in rural Guatemala that harvested  beans in 2015, with crop production data from two planting  seasons. By including a full factorial of three variables  of wealth and the harvest usage decision from two different  seasons, we examine the effect of storing more beans across  different wealth levels and harvest storage amounts. We  find an interesting contrast between the impact on the  household's sense of food security and its actual food  security. Even though storing more beans does not reduce  the likelihood of a household running out of food, it does  help to reduce the worry among poorer households that such  an incident might occur. We also analyze the effect of  storage decisions on different categories of food security  using generalized ordered logit, and then compare whether  the effect on food security is different between adults and  children using multinomial logit. We find that increasing  storage could lead to adults having less variation in their  food consumption patterns, but the effect is less  pronounced among children. 

Acknowledgement :  This work  was supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic  Cooperation and Development (BMZ).},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/277244},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.277244},
}