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ArticleNutrients2021

Food Insecurity Pre- and Post the COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis in Lebanon: Prevalence and Projections.

Samer Kharroubi, Farah Naja, Marwa Diab-El-Harake, Lamis Jomaa

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Article in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Samer KharroubiDepartment of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Riad El-Solh, P.O. Box 11-0236, Beirut 1107-2020, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-2355-2719
Farah NajaDepartment of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Research Institute of Medical & Health Sciences (RIMHS), College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-8861-3498
Marwa Diab-El-HarakeDepartment of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Riad El-Solh, P.O. Box 11-0236, Beirut 1107-2020, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0001-5483-4033
Lamis JomaaDepartment of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Riad El-Solh, P.O. Box 11-0236, Beirut 1107-2020, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-3046-4581

Funding

University Research Board, American University of Beirut URB Award #: 03601
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had serious repercussions on the global economy, work force, and food systems. In Lebanon, the pandemic overlapped with an economic crisis, which threatened to exacerbate food insecurity (FI). The present study aims to evaluate the trends and projections of FI in Lebanon due to overlapping health and economic crises. Data from Gallup World Poll (GWP) 2015-2017 surveys conducted in Lebanon on nationally representative adults (

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AdolescentAdultCOVID-19Cross-Sectional StudiesEconomic RecessionFemaleFood InsecurityFood SupplyHumansLebanonMaleMiddle AgedPandemicsPrevalenceResilience, PsychologicalSocioeconomic FactorsCOVID-19economic crisisfood insecurityGWPLebanonmodelingpandemicprojectionstrends

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PMID34578854
PMCPMC8471524

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