ArticleFood policy2021
COVID-19 and food security: Panel data evidence from Nigeria.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Multidimensionality of Household Food Security: A Systematic Review.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- Assessing the determinants of uptake and hesitancy in accessing COVID 19 vaccines in Nigeria: a scoping review.Frontiers in health services · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of COVID-19 on diet quality, food security and nutrition in low and middle income countries: A systematic review of the evidence.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2022Pooled it
- Coverage and determinants of COVID-19 vaccination among 36 555 Nigerian women of childbearing age: a mixed-effects analysis of nationally representative data.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Economic shocks, food insufficiency and mental health: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2026Article
- Direct and indirect crisis of food security due to COVID-19 emergence in Addis Ababa and Amhara regions, Ethiopia: a lesson for the inevitable pandemics.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The COVID-19 pandemic and self-reported food insecurity among women in Burkina Faso: evidence from the performance monitoring for action (PMA) COVID-19 survey data.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on household hunger and socio-economic inequality in South Africa: a comparative analysis using NIDS-CRAM (2020-2021) and NFNSS 2022 data.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Resilience, endogenous policy responses to COVID-19, and their impacts on farm performance.World development · 2023Article
- Impact of digital communications on project efficiency through ease of use and top management support.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Nigerians: evidence from a cross-sectional national survey.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- Covid-19-induced Shocks, Access to Basic Needs and Coping Strategies.The European journal of development research · 2023Article
- Food insecurity and health outcome nexus: empirical evidence from the informal sector enterprises in Bangladesh.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Food processing industry changes across China regions: The case of flour, rice, oil, and other cereal derivative food.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- A simulation of increasing rice price toward the disparity of income distribution: An evidence from Indonesia.Heliyon · 2023Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Food Security and Caused Psychosocial Stress in Selected States of Nigeria.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Household living conditions and food insecurity in Nigeria: a longitudinal study during COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ open · 2023Article
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Abstract
This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to examine the implication of the COVID-19 pandemic on household food security and labor market participation outcomes in Nigeria. To examine these relationships and implications, we exploit spatial variation in exposure to COVID-19 related infections and lockdown measures, along with temporal differences in our outcomes of interest, using a difference-in-difference approach. We find that households exposed to higher COVID-19 case rates or mobility lockdowns experience a significant increase in measures of food insecurity. Examining possible transmission channels for this effect, we find that the spread of the pandemic is associated with significant reductions in labor market participation. For instance, lockdown measures are associated with 6-15 percentage points increase in households' experience of food insecurity. Similarly, lockdown measures are associated with 12 percentage points reduction in the probability of participation in non-farm business activities. These lockdown measures have limited implications on wage-related activities and farming activities. In terms of food security, households relying on non-farm businesses, poorer households, and those living in remote and conflicted-affected zones have experienced relatively larger deteriorations in food security. These findings can help inform immediate and medium-term policy responses, including social protection policies aiming at ameliorating the impacts of the pandemic.
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