COVID-19 in rural Africa: Food access disruptions, food insecurity and coping strategies in Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania
This study assesses the extent of COVID-19-related food insecurity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia.
This study assesses the extent of COVID-19-related food insecurity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia.
As an unobservable attribute, food safety is likely to be under-provided by markets where regulatory enforcement is weak.
Lack of accurate information about soil nutrient deficiencies coupled with limited access to appropriate fertilizers could lead to mismatch between soil nutrient deficiencies (requirements) and fertilizer applications.
We adopt the newly redefined marginal treatment effect (MTE) framework to examine how farmers' resource endowment and unobserved factors affect the marginal benefit of adopting sustainable intensification of agricultural practices (SI practices),
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It is widely feared that the shock of the COVID‐19 pandemic will lead to a significant worsening of the food security situation in low and middle‐income countries.
Conference paper presented at the International Association of Agricultural Economists 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy.