West Africa faces mixed food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Bouët, Antoine, David Laborde Debucquet and Traoré, Fousseini
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Antoine Bouët

Chapter 29 in The Russia-Ukraine conflict and global food security, 2023, pp 150-153 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Food security in West Africa has been deteriorating since 2015: The proportion of the population affected by undernutrition rose from 11.5% in 2015 to 18.7% in 2020, a total of 75.2 million people. Now, like the rest of the world, the region faces rapidly growing impacts from Russia’s war in Ukraine, including spiking food prices and disruptions in markets for cereals and other commodities, including fertilizers and fuels. What are some of the war’s likely effects on West Africa?; Overall, the greatest risk is from rising global prices. The region imports relatively little food or fertilizer (with some exceptions) from Russia and Ukraine, insulating it from many of the current market disruptions, and has capacity to substitute some lost fertilizer imports.

Keywords: fertilizers; shock; undernutrition; policies; war; coronavirus; covid-19; agriculture; markets; trade; coronavirinae; russia; food security; ukraine; conflicts; coronavirus disease; prices; climate change; Western Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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