2020/12/07 by Saeed Nosratabadi, Nosratabadi, Saeed, Nesrine Khazami +11 · 1 citation
Health Professions · #FOS: Economics and business #Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations #General Economics (econ.GN)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.03606
openalex publication_date 2020/12/07 · openalex created_date 2021/04/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Social capital creates a synergy that benefits all members of a community.\nThis review examines how social capital contributes to the food security of\ncommunities. A systematic literature review, based on Prisma, is designed to\nprovide a state-of-the-art review on capacity social capital in this realm. The\noutput of this method led to finding 39 related articles. Studying these\narticles illustrates that social capital improves food security through two\nmechanisms of knowledge sharing and product sharing (i.e., sharing food\nproducts). It reveals that social capital through improving the food security\npillars (i.e., food availability, food accessibility, food utilization, and\nfood system stability) affects food security. In other words, the interaction\namong the community members results in sharing food products and information\namong community members, which facilitates food availability and access to\nfood. There are many shreds of evidence in the literature that sharing food and\nfood products among the community member decreases household food security and\nprovides healthy nutrition to vulnerable families and improves the food\nutilization pillar of food security. It is also disclosed that belonging to the\nsocial networks increases the community members' resilience and decreases the\ncommunity's vulnerability that subsequently strengthens the stability of a food\nsystem. This study contributes to the common literature on food security and\nsocial capital by providing a conceptual model based on the literature. In\naddition to researchers, policymakers can use this study's findings to provide\nsolutions to address food insecurity problems.\n