From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia
Since Amartya Sen’s famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that policy responses to food market shocks should be guided by changes in households’ incomes and access to food, rather than by overall food availability. Perhaps because the household-level impacts are not directly...
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| author | Koo, Jawoo Mamun, Abdullah Martin, Will |
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| description | Since Amartya Sen’s famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that policy responses to food market shocks should be guided by changes in households’ incomes and access to food, rather than by overall food availability. Perhaps because the household-level impacts are not directly observable, many policy makers have continued to rely on availability-oriented policies such as export bans. In the Zambia case considered in this paper, export bans imposed in response to an El Niño event exacerbated the poverty problems resulting from the output shock. The combination of household-level data and crop models used in this paper allows us to assess the impacts of weather and price shocks at the household level, and hence to evaluate the suitability of availability-based policies for dealing with weather shocks. These analytical techniques are also useful in identifying the households and regions adversely affected by food output shocks, and hence in designing policies to improve poor consumers’ access to food. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1435052025-12-02T21:03:13Z From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia Koo, Jawoo Mamun, Abdullah Martin, Will spatial data climate change el niño models food security exports trade trade policies poverty weather food supply households decision-support systems export controls capacity development Since Amartya Sen’s famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that policy responses to food market shocks should be guided by changes in households’ incomes and access to food, rather than by overall food availability. Perhaps because the household-level impacts are not directly observable, many policy makers have continued to rely on availability-oriented policies such as export bans. In the Zambia case considered in this paper, export bans imposed in response to an El Niño event exacerbated the poverty problems resulting from the output shock. The combination of household-level data and crop models used in this paper allows us to assess the impacts of weather and price shocks at the household level, and hence to evaluate the suitability of availability-based policies for dealing with weather shocks. These analytical techniques are also useful in identifying the households and regions adversely affected by food output shocks, and hence in designing policies to improve poor consumers’ access to food. 2020-03-01 2024-05-22T12:14:43Z 2024-05-22T12:14:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143505 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293595 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Koo, Jawoo; Mamun, Abdullah; and Martin, Will. 2020. From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1923. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133705. |
| spellingShingle | spatial data climate change el niño models food security exports trade trade policies poverty weather food supply households decision-support systems export controls capacity development Koo, Jawoo Mamun, Abdullah Martin, Will From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia |
| title | From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia |
| title_full | From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia |
| title_fullStr | From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia |
| title_full_unstemmed | From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia |
| title_short | From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in Zambia |
| title_sort | from bad to worse poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks in zambia |
| topic | spatial data climate change el niño models food security exports trade trade policies poverty weather food supply households decision-support systems export controls capacity development |
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