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Navigating food price shocks in a pandemic: Food insecurity and coping mechanisms in Burkina Faso

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  • Alam, Shamma Adeeb
  • Liu, Shi Xi
  • Pörtner, Claus C.

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Global food prices rose substantially after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the impact of rising food prices during the pandemic on food security in Burkina Faso. We aim to answer two primary questions. First, how do food price shocks affect household food insecurity? Second, what coping strategies do households adopt in response to these price shocks? Leveraging country-wide high-frequency longitudinal data, we employ household fixed effect models to examine the effects. In the absence of direct information on local food prices, we use household-reported price shocks to capture province-level price increases and show that the results are consistent with national-level price increases.

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  • Alam, Shamma Adeeb & Liu, Shi Xi & Pörtner, Claus C., 2024. "Navigating food price shocks in a pandemic: Food insecurity and coping mechanisms in Burkina Faso," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 182(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:182:y:2024:i:c:s0305750x24001840
    DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106714
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    Keywords

    Food price; Food insecurity; Coping mechanisms; COVID-19; Burkina Faso;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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