In many developing countries, supermarkets are spreading rapidly at the expense of traditional food markets and shops …. Changing retail environments and food choices may affect consumer diets and nutritional outcomes. Previous research suggested … variable regressions show that supermarket food purchases significantly increase child height-for-age and weight-for age Z …

Though social protection in sub-Saharan Africa is intensive to alleviate food insecurity of the vulnerable group such … as women, its impact on the food security status of female-headed rural households has not been well documented …. Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the effect of the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on the food security of …