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Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea
The number of people engaged in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has grown rapidly in the past twenty years, but they continue to be an understudied population experiencing high rates of malnutrition, poverty, and food insecurity. This paper explores how characteristics of markets that serve A...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7231122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32290264 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9040479 |
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author | Zhang, Laetitia X. Koroma, Fatima Fofana, Mohammed Lamine Barry, Alpha Oumar Diallo, Sadio Lamilé Songbono, Joseph Stokes-Walters, Ronald Klemm, Rolf D. Nordhagen, Stella Winch, Peter J. |
author_facet | Zhang, Laetitia X. Koroma, Fatima Fofana, Mohammed Lamine Barry, Alpha Oumar Diallo, Sadio Lamilé Songbono, Joseph Stokes-Walters, Ronald Klemm, Rolf D. Nordhagen, Stella Winch, Peter J. |
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description | The number of people engaged in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has grown rapidly in the past twenty years, but they continue to be an understudied population experiencing high rates of malnutrition, poverty, and food insecurity. This paper explores how characteristics of markets that serve ASM populations facilitate and pose challenges to acquiring a nutritious and sustainable diet. The study sites included eight markets across four mining districts in the Kankan Region in the Republic of Guinea. Market descriptions to capture the structure of village markets, as well as twenty in-depth structured interviews with food vendors at mining site markets were conducted. We identified three forms of market organization based on location and distance from mining sites. Markets located close to mining sites offered fewer fruit and vegetable options, as well as a higher ratio of prepared food options as compared with markets located close to village centers. Vendors were highly responsive to customer needs. Food accessibility and utilization, rather than availability, are critical for food security in non-agricultural rural areas such as mining sites. Future market-based nutrition interventions need to consider the diverse market settings serving ASM communities and leverage the high vendor responsiveness to customer needs. |
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spelling | pubmed-72311222020-05-22 Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea Zhang, Laetitia X. Koroma, Fatima Fofana, Mohammed Lamine Barry, Alpha Oumar Diallo, Sadio Lamilé Songbono, Joseph Stokes-Walters, Ronald Klemm, Rolf D. Nordhagen, Stella Winch, Peter J. Foods Article The number of people engaged in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has grown rapidly in the past twenty years, but they continue to be an understudied population experiencing high rates of malnutrition, poverty, and food insecurity. This paper explores how characteristics of markets that serve ASM populations facilitate and pose challenges to acquiring a nutritious and sustainable diet. The study sites included eight markets across four mining districts in the Kankan Region in the Republic of Guinea. Market descriptions to capture the structure of village markets, as well as twenty in-depth structured interviews with food vendors at mining site markets were conducted. We identified three forms of market organization based on location and distance from mining sites. Markets located close to mining sites offered fewer fruit and vegetable options, as well as a higher ratio of prepared food options as compared with markets located close to village centers. Vendors were highly responsive to customer needs. Food accessibility and utilization, rather than availability, are critical for food security in non-agricultural rural areas such as mining sites. Future market-based nutrition interventions need to consider the diverse market settings serving ASM communities and leverage the high vendor responsiveness to customer needs. MDPI 2020-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7231122/ /pubmed/32290264 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9040479 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Laetitia X. Koroma, Fatima Fofana, Mohammed Lamine Barry, Alpha Oumar Diallo, Sadio Lamilé Songbono, Joseph Stokes-Walters, Ronald Klemm, Rolf D. Nordhagen, Stella Winch, Peter J. Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea |
title | Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea |
title_full | Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea |
title_fullStr | Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea |
title_full_unstemmed | Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea |
title_short | Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea |
title_sort | food security in artisanal mining communities: an exploration of rural markets in northern guinea |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7231122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32290264 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9040479 |
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