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.
Lockdowns induced by COVID-19 have threatened food security in most developing countries.
Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, an
The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID‐19.
This article examines the short‐term effects of the COVID‐19 lockdown on food security and nutrition in rural Guatemala.
How can decisionmakers resolve the tension between optimal long-run policies and short-run initiatives to address food security concerns?
Contributed Paper prepared for presentation at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009.