Methods used to estimate the poverty impact of increases in international food prices

Nicholas Minot and Will Martin

Global Crisis Country Brief from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: IFPRI carried out a set of country studies to explore the poverty impact of higher staple grain prices on six countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia (see Martin and Minot, 2023a, 2023b, and 2023c and Minot and Martin, 2023a, 2023b, and 2023c). This brief describes the methods and data used in those studies.; The prices of agricultural commodities have increased on international markets since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 and spiked after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022. The price increases were particularly notable in the case of wheat, maize, and sorghum, which are staple foods in many developing countries. This prompted a wave of research to better understand the effect of these price changes on income and poverty in low-income countries.

Keywords: income; sorghum; agricultural products; coronavirus; covid-19; maize; staple foods; markets; coronavirinae; developing countries; coronavirus disease; wheat; poverty; prices; Mali; Burkina Faso; Kenya; Niger; Nigeria; Ethiopia; Eastern Africa; Western Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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