Food insecurity persists globally, with lack of access to farmland among the main factors contributing to chronic undernourishment. Population resettlement to areas of low density presents a possible but controversial solution to land scarcity. This paper examines the case of Malawi’s Community Based Rural Land Development Project, a World Bank funded internal resettlement scheme for 15,000 participating households. Based on four months of fieldwork, including a survey of 200 households, 5 focus group discussions and 20 expert interviews, we assess how voluntary, internal, ‘rural to rural’ resettlement affects food security and nutrition through diet quality. Overall, we found that lack of wage labour opportunities and poor access to markets lowered food access (HDDS) among beneficiaries compared to non-beneficiaries (who did not participate in the resettlement scheme from the outset but were eligible), former beneficiaries (who had participated in scheme but had abandoned it by the time of the study), and national averages. Diet quality (IDDS) varied significantly according to resettlement location, as well as between beneficiaries and former-and non-beneficiaries, where overall, beneficiaries who were still living in their resettlement location at the time of the study had the lowest IDDS and therefore poorest diet quality. The regression results and the focus group discussions suggest that beyond access to infrastructure and markets, secure entitlements to training and farming inputs need to be sustained and improved in relocation areas to bring about positive food security outcomes for resettled populations.

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土地稀缺、移民安置和粮食安全：评估自愿移民对马拉维饮食质量的影响

粮食不安全在全球范围内持续存在，无法获得农田是造成长期营养不足的主要因素。将人口重新安置到低密度地区是解决土地稀缺的一个可能但有争议的解决方案。本文考察了马拉维社区农村土地开发项目的案例，该项目是世界银行资助的 15,000 户参与家庭的内部安置计划。基于四个月的实地调查，包括对 200 户家庭的调查、5 次焦点小组讨论和 20 次专家访谈，我们评估了自愿、内部、“从农村到农村”的重新安置如何通过饮食质量影响粮食安全和营养。全面的，我们发现，与非受益人（从一开始就没有参与重新安置计划但有资格）、前受益人（参与过移民安置计划）相比，缺乏受薪劳动机会和进入市场的渠道不畅降低了受益人的粮食获取 (HDDS)计划，但在研究时已放弃）和全国平均水平。饮食质量 (IDDS) 因重新安置地点而异，受益人与前和非受益人之间也存在显着差异，总体而言，在研究时仍居住在重新安置地点的受益人的 IDDS 最低，因此最贫穷饮食质量。回归结果和焦点小组讨论表明，除了进入基础设施和市场之外，