ArticleFood policy2022
Food insecurity during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in four African countries.
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- Machine learning-enhanced modeling approach for optimally predicting household level food insecurity in Ethiopia during COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Predictors and regional prevalence of food insecurity in Ethiopia during COVID-19: a multilevel analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Food Insecurity: Is Leagility a Potential Remedy?Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The evolution of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel survey data.BMC proceedings · 2023Article
- COVID-19 mobility restrictions and stay-at-home behaviour in 2020 were associated with higher retail food prices worldwide.Global food security · 2023Article
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- Has COVID-19 accelerated the E-commerce of agricultural products? Evidence from sales data of E-stores in China.Food policy · 2022Article
- The COVID-19 pandemic and food security in low- and middle-income countries: a review.Agriculture & food security · 2022Review
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Abstract
We document trends in food security up to one full year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in four African countries. Using household-level data collected by the World Bank, we highlight differences over time amid the pandemic, between rural and urban areas, and between female-headed and male-headed households within Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria. We first observe a sharp increase in food insecurity during the early months of the pandemic with a subsequent gradual decline. Next, we find that food insecurity has increased more in rural areas than in urban areas relative to pre-pandemic data within each of these countries. Finally, we do not find a systematic difference in changes in food insecurity between female-headed and male-headed households. These trends complement previous microeconomic analysis studying short-term changes in food security associated with the pandemic and existing macroeconomic projections.
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