Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round

It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will concentrate on the most vulnerable segments of the population (Swinnen and McDermott 2020). Although Myanmar, with one of the lowest COVID-19 infection...

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Autores principales: Minten, Bart, Oo, Than Zaw, Headey, Derek D., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Goudet, Sophie
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143839
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author Minten, Bart
Oo, Than Zaw
Headey, Derek D.
Lambrecht, Isabel B.
Goudet, Sophie
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Headey, Derek D.
Lambrecht, Isabel B.
Minten, Bart
Oo, Than Zaw
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Goudet, Sophie
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description It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will concentrate on the most vulnerable segments of the population (Swinnen and McDermott 2020). Although Myanmar, with one of the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the world, has been spared the worst direct impacts of the disease, its economy remains highly vulnerable to the economic fallout of the contagion. A major contributor to increased food insecurity in Myanmar is the reduction of income among vulnerable populations (Diao et al. 2020), partly due to significant declines in remittances in the country (Diao and Wang 2020). In addition, disruptions to food marketing systems and changes in farm and consumer prices could also turn out to be major drivers of food insecurity. Changes in food markets – including supply of commodities and transport - and food and agricultural prices are an obvious concern to policy makers, given the importance of agricultural prices for the income of farmers and food prices for the purchasing power of consumers.
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spelling CGSpace1438392025-11-06T05:27:27Z Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round Minten, Bart Oo, Than Zaw Headey, Derek D. Lambrecht, Isabel B. Goudet, Sophie policies covid-19 consumer behaviour wet markets food supply disease prevention food security food prices It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will concentrate on the most vulnerable segments of the population (Swinnen and McDermott 2020). Although Myanmar, with one of the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the world, has been spared the worst direct impacts of the disease, its economy remains highly vulnerable to the economic fallout of the contagion. A major contributor to increased food insecurity in Myanmar is the reduction of income among vulnerable populations (Diao et al. 2020), partly due to significant declines in remittances in the country (Diao and Wang 2020). In addition, disruptions to food marketing systems and changes in farm and consumer prices could also turn out to be major drivers of food insecurity. Changes in food markets – including supply of commodities and transport - and food and agricultural prices are an obvious concern to policy makers, given the importance of agricultural prices for the income of farmers and food prices for the purchasing power of consumers. 2020-09-01 2024-05-22T12:17:21Z 2024-05-22T12:17:21Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143839 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Minten, Bart; Oo, Than Zaw; Headey, Derek D.; Lambrecht, Isabel; and Goudet, Sophie. 2020. Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round. Myanmar SSP Policy Note 30. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134015.
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consumer behaviour
wet markets
food supply
disease prevention
food security
food prices
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Oo, Than Zaw
Headey, Derek D.
Lambrecht, Isabel B.
Goudet, Sophie
Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round
title Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round
title_full Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round
title_fullStr Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round
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title_short Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round
title_sort monitoring the impacts of covid 19 in myanmar food vendors june and july 2020 survey round
topic policies
covid-19
consumer behaviour
wet markets
food supply
disease prevention
food security
food prices
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143839
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