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Abstract
Undernutrition of children 0-60 months old in Mozambique is much higher in rural
than in urban areas. Food security is about the same, although substantial regional
differences exist. Given these outcomes, we hypothesized that the determinants of food
security and nutritional status in rural and urban areas of Mozambique would differ as
well. Yet we find that the determinants of food insecurity and malnutrition, and the
magnitudes of their effects, are very nearly the same. The difference in observed outcomes
appears primarily due to differences in the levels of critical determinants rather than in the
nature of the determinants themselves.