Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security

COVID-19 undermines food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could undermine food production, processing and marketing, but the most concerning im...

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Autores principales: Devereux, Stephen, Béné, Christophe, Hoddinott, John F.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Springer 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108840
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author Devereux, Stephen
Béné, Christophe
Hoddinott, John F.
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description COVID-19 undermines food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could undermine food production, processing and marketing, but the most concerning impacts are on the demand-side – economic and physical access to food. This paper identifies three complementary frameworks that can contribute to understanding these effects, which are expected to persist into the post-pandemic phase, after lockdowns are lifted. FAO’s ‘four pillars’– availability, access, stability and utilisation – and the ‘food systems’ approach both provide holistic frameworks for analysing food security. Sen’s ‘entitlement’ approach is useful for disaggregating demand-side effects on household production-, labour-, trade- and transfer-based entitlements to food. Drawing on the strengths of each of these frameworks can enhance the understanding of the pandemic’s impacts on food security, while also pinpointing areas for governments and other actors to intervene in the food system, to protect the food security of households left vulnerable by COVID-19 and public responses.
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spelling CGSpace1088402025-11-11T19:07:40Z Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security Devereux, Stephen Béné, Christophe Hoddinott, John F. covid-19 enfermedad por coronavirus 2019 food systems sistemas alimentarios household food security seguridad alimentaría en el hogar COVID-19 undermines food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could undermine food production, processing and marketing, but the most concerning impacts are on the demand-side – economic and physical access to food. This paper identifies three complementary frameworks that can contribute to understanding these effects, which are expected to persist into the post-pandemic phase, after lockdowns are lifted. FAO’s ‘four pillars’– availability, access, stability and utilisation – and the ‘food systems’ approach both provide holistic frameworks for analysing food security. Sen’s ‘entitlement’ approach is useful for disaggregating demand-side effects on household production-, labour-, trade- and transfer-based entitlements to food. Drawing on the strengths of each of these frameworks can enhance the understanding of the pandemic’s impacts on food security, while also pinpointing areas for governments and other actors to intervene in the food system, to protect the food security of households left vulnerable by COVID-19 and public responses. 2020-08 2020-07-21T19:14:18Z 2020-07-21T19:14:18Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108840 en Open Access application/pdf Springer Devereux, S.; Béné, C.; Hoddinott, J. (2020) Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security. Food Security, Online first paper (14 July 2020) 4 p. ISSN: 1876-4517
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enfermedad por coronavirus 2019
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household food security
seguridad alimentaría en el hogar
Devereux, Stephen
Béné, Christophe
Hoddinott, John F.
Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
title Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
title_full Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
title_fullStr Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
title_full_unstemmed Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
title_short Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
title_sort conceptualising covid 19 s impacts on household food security
topic covid-19
enfermedad por coronavirus 2019
food systems
sistemas alimentarios
household food security
seguridad alimentaría en el hogar
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