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Undernutrition of children 0-60 months old in Mozambique is much higher in
rural than in urban areas. Food security is about the same, although substa
ntial regional differences exist. Given these outcomes, we hypothesized tha
t the determinants of food security and nutritional status in rural and urb
an areas of Mozambique would differ as well. Yet we find that the determina
nts of food insecurity and malnutrition, and the magnitudes of their effect
s, are very nearly the same, although some differentiation in determinants
of undernutrition does begin to appear among children 24-60 months old. The
difference in observed outcomes appears primarily due to differences in th
e levels of critical determinants rather than in the nature of the determin
ants themselves. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.