Self-Reported Food Insecurity in Africa During the Food Price Crisis

By M. Verpoorten, Abhimanyu Arora, Jo Swinnen. 2013

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2014, background): “Likewise, Verpoorten et al. (2013) found that between 5 and 12 million people in 18 subSaharan African countries became more food secure over the period 2005–2008.”
• Feeding unrest (2014, background): “In Africa, rising food prices have an undeniably disproportionate impact on poor urban dwellers who often devote over half of their household income to food purchases (Kendall, Olson & Frongillo, 1996; Ruel, Haddad & Garrett, 1999; Mawell, 1999; Verpoorten et al., 2013).”
• The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa (2017, unknown): “Using survey data from 18 African countries in 2005 and 2008, Verpoorten et al. (2013) find that higher international food prices are simultaneously associated with lower and higher consumption in urban and rural households, respectively.”