COVID-19 Working Paper: Food Insecurity During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Four African Countries

Jeffrey Bloem, Jeffrey Michler, Anna Josephson and Lorin Rudin-Rush

No 327334, Administrative Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: This report analyzes food security in the year after the onset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in four African countries. Using household-level data collected by the World Bank, this report describes differences in food security over time during the pandemic between rural and urban areas as well as between female- and male-headed households in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria. A sharp increase in food insecurity is observed during the early months of the pandemic before a gradual decline. Additionally, findings show a larger increase in food insecurity in rural areas relative to urban areas within each of these countries. Finally, no systemic difference in food insecurity is found between female-headed and male-headed households.

Keywords: Food Security and Poverty; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46
Date: 2022-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.327334

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