Food insecurity during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in four African countries

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新冠疫情背景下的粮食安全——基于四个非洲国家

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Food Policy

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https://pan.ckcest.cn/rcservice//doc?doc_id=106285

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一带一路农业专题

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学术文献

语种：

英语

原文发布日期：

2022-06-27

摘要：

We document trends in food security up to one full year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in four African countries. Using household-level data collected by the World Bank, we highlight differences over time amid the pandemic, between rural and urban areas, and between female-headed and male-headed households within Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria. We first observe a sharp increase in food insecurity during the early months of the pandemic with a subsequent gradual decline. Next, we find that food insecurity has increased more in rural areas than in urban areas relative to pre-pandemic data within each of these countries. Finally, we do not find a systematic difference in changes in food insecurity between female-headed and male-headed households. These trends complement previous microeconomic analysis studying short-term changes in food security associated with the pandemic and existing macroeconomic projections.