The Food Security of Algerian Households in The Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Study

Zinelaabidine Touidjeni, Mohamed Seifeddine Boufalta and Louiza Mebarki

International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics (IJFAEC), 2022, vol. 10, issue 3

Abstract: The study aims to survey a sample of Algerian households’ opinions concerning their food security state under the COVID-19 pandemic. The electronic questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection. The study sample included 638 families distributed in 45 Algerian states. A set of results were reached, the most important are: the majority of households' opinions tended to highly agreed on the food commodities availability by relying mainly on national production during the COVID-19 pandemic period; families in the research sample weakly agreed to the stability of their supply of food commodities during the pandemic; the physical access to food commodities for families was affected differently, most families agreed moderately to their financial ability to obtain food commodities was weak compared to the period before the outbreak, the majority of the research sample agreed to a high degree to the quality and safety of food commodities obtained did not decline during this pandemic.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Health Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.324827

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