Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
We aimed to clarify determinants of household food security in a socio-economically vulnerable area. In more detail, we used individual data from the household survey conducted by the World Bank in East Timor in 2001, and applied a quantile regression method. Our results revealed that the more the number of non-family members who stayed together as dependents and the more the total amount of property damage due to the 1999 riot a household had, the lower the food expenditure per capita. In addition, it was found that the more social capital and the more own-consumption of livestock a household had, the higher the food expenditure per capita. Considering these results as a whole, the accumulation of social capital and the promotion of livestock raising for the purpose of own-consumption would be effective measures to lessen the negative impact of a socio-economic shock such as the 1999 riot and/or to improve household food security in the study site.
