Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt
Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world food prices and trade shocks triggered by Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Imports account for more than 40% of Egypt’s calorie consumption, and the country is the world’s largest importer of whe...
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| author | Abay, Kibrom A. Karachiwalla, Naureen Kurdi, Sikandra Salama, Yousra |
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| description | Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world food prices and trade shocks triggered by Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Imports account for more than 40% of Egypt’s calorie consumption, and the country is the world’s largest importer of wheat, with about 85% coming from Russia and Ukraine before the war began. Since then, supply disruptions, high global market prices, and other factors have led to sharp rises in domestic food inflation, which reached 31% in November. This in turn is a major driver of rising overall annual inflation, which soared from 6% to 19% between January and November 2022 — the highest rate in five years. In this post, based on a recent survey, we assess how Egypt’s poor households are responding to these economic stresses, and how the Egyptian government’s social protection efforts have affected consumption since the conflict began. In general, the survey indicates that many poor households cut back on consumption of some unsubsidized nutritious foods while consumption of subsidized foods remained unaffected, suggesting the national food subsidy program plays an important role. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1400782025-11-06T04:10:20Z Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt Abay, Kibrom A. Karachiwalla, Naureen Kurdi, Sikandra Salama, Yousra low income groups shock policies war coronavirus covid-19 households agriculture markets trade coronavirinae russia food security ukraine conflicts coronavirus disease diet prices climate change Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world food prices and trade shocks triggered by Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Imports account for more than 40% of Egypt’s calorie consumption, and the country is the world’s largest importer of wheat, with about 85% coming from Russia and Ukraine before the war began. Since then, supply disruptions, high global market prices, and other factors have led to sharp rises in domestic food inflation, which reached 31% in November. This in turn is a major driver of rising overall annual inflation, which soared from 6% to 19% between January and November 2022 — the highest rate in five years. In this post, based on a recent survey, we assess how Egypt’s poor households are responding to these economic stresses, and how the Egyptian government’s social protection efforts have affected consumption since the conflict began. In general, the survey indicates that many poor households cut back on consumption of some unsubsidized nutritious foods while consumption of subsidized foods remained unaffected, suggesting the national food subsidy program plays an important role. 2023-07-11 2024-03-14T12:08:53Z 2024-03-14T12:08:53Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140078 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294394 https://www.ifpri.org/blog/food-price-shocks-and-diets-among-poor-households-egypt Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Abay, Kibrom A.; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Kurdi, Sikandra; and Salama, Yousra. 2023. Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt. In The Russia-Ukraine Conflict and Global Food Security, eds. Joseph Glauber and David Laborde. Section Four: Country Impacts and Responses: Middle East and North Africa, Chapter 25, Pp. 129-134. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294394_25. |
| spellingShingle | low income groups shock policies war coronavirus covid-19 households agriculture markets trade coronavirinae russia food security ukraine conflicts coronavirus disease diet prices climate change Abay, Kibrom A. Karachiwalla, Naureen Kurdi, Sikandra Salama, Yousra Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt |
| title | Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt |
| title_full | Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt |
| title_fullStr | Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt |
| title_short | Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt |
| title_sort | food price shocks and diets among poor households in egypt |
| topic | low income groups shock policies war coronavirus covid-19 households agriculture markets trade coronavirinae russia food security ukraine conflicts coronavirus disease diet prices climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140078 |
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