Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa
International humanitarian organizations have expressed substantial concern about the potential for increases in food insecurity resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we use a unique panel survey of a representative distribution of households in Addis Ababa to study both food security...
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| author | Hirvonen, Kalle de Brauw, Alan Abate, Gashaw T. |
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| description | International humanitarian organizations have expressed substantial concern about the potential for increases in food insecurity resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we use a unique panel survey of a representative distribution of households in Addis Ababa to study both food security and food consumption. In contrast to some other countries in the region, Ethiopia never went into a full lockdown severely restricting movement. Despite subjective income measures suggesting a large proportion of households have been exposed to job loss or reduced incomes, we find that relative to a survey conducted in August and September of 2019, food consumption and household dietary diversity are largely unchanged or slightly increased by August 2020. We find some changes in the composition of food consumption, but they are not related to shocks found in previous phone surveys conducted with the same households. The results therefore suggest the types of subjective questions about income typically being asked in COVID-19 phone surveys may not appropriately reflect the magnitude of such shocks. They also imply, at least indirectly, that in the aggregate food value chains have been resilient to the shock associated with the pandemic. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1435472025-12-02T21:03:03Z Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa Hirvonen, Kalle de Brauw, Alan Abate, Gashaw T. income nutrition security covid-19 households food security food consumption pandemics International humanitarian organizations have expressed substantial concern about the potential for increases in food insecurity resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we use a unique panel survey of a representative distribution of households in Addis Ababa to study both food security and food consumption. In contrast to some other countries in the region, Ethiopia never went into a full lockdown severely restricting movement. Despite subjective income measures suggesting a large proportion of households have been exposed to job loss or reduced incomes, we find that relative to a survey conducted in August and September of 2019, food consumption and household dietary diversity are largely unchanged or slightly increased by August 2020. We find some changes in the composition of food consumption, but they are not related to shocks found in previous phone surveys conducted with the same households. The results therefore suggest the types of subjective questions about income typically being asked in COVID-19 phone surveys may not appropriately reflect the magnitude of such shocks. They also imply, at least indirectly, that in the aggregate food value chains have been resilient to the shock associated with the pandemic. 2020-09-01 2024-05-22T12:15:00Z 2024-05-22T12:15:00Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143547 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133851 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133766 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133731 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133762_10 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134161 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134939 https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12206 https://www.ifpri.org/blog/survey-suggests-rising-risk-food-and-nutrition-insecurity-addis-ababa-ethiopia-covid-19 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hirvonen, Kalle; de Brauw, Alan; and Abate, Gashaw T. 2020. Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1964. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134018. |
| spellingShingle | income nutrition security covid-19 households food security food consumption pandemics Hirvonen, Kalle de Brauw, Alan Abate, Gashaw T. Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa |
| title | Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa |
| title_full | Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa |
| title_fullStr | Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa |
| title_short | Food consumption and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa |
| title_sort | food consumption and food security during the covid 19 pandemic in addis ababa |
| topic | income nutrition security covid-19 households food security food consumption pandemics |
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