Navigating food price shocks in a pandemic: Food insecurity and coping mechanisms in Burkina Faso

Shamma Adeeb Alam, Shi Xi Liu and Claus Pörtner

World Development, 2024, vol. 182, issue C

Abstract: Global food prices rose substantially after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the impact of rising food prices during the pandemic on food security in Burkina Faso. We aim to answer two primary questions. First, how do food price shocks affect household food insecurity? Second, what coping strategies do households adopt in response to these price shocks? Leveraging country-wide high-frequency longitudinal data, we employ household fixed effect models to examine the effects. In the absence of direct information on local food prices, we use household-reported price shocks to capture province-level price increases and show that the results are consistent with national-level price increases.

Keywords: Food price; Food insecurity; Coping mechanisms; COVID-19; Burkina Faso (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 O12 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106714

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