UCLA

Connections between labour migration and food security of left-behind households are still poorly understood. Using data from two waves of a longitudinal survey conducted among ever-married women in rural Mozambique, we employ multi-level ordered logit and negative binomial regressions to examine over time three possible pathways linking mens migration and its economic success to food security of left-behind households-agricultural investment, household material assets and womens local gainful employment. Our analyses find a significant positive association between migrations success, proxied by remittances, and food security and show that this association is largely mediated by households possession of material assets.