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Food insecurity and rising food prices : what do we learn from experiential measures ?

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  • Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell
  • Seff,Ilana Julie
  • De La Fuente,Alejandro

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Throughout many countries in the world, the measurement of food security currently includes accounting for the importance of perception and anxiety about meeting basic food needs. Using panel data from Malawi, this paper shows that worrying about food security is linked to self-reports of having experienced food insecurity, and the analysis provides evidence that rapidly rising food prices are a source of the anxiety and experiences of food insecurity. This finding controls for individual-level fixed effects and changes in the economic well-being of the individual. A particularly revealing finding of the importance of accounting for anxiety in assessing food insecurity is that individuals report a significant increase in experiences of food insecurity in the presence of rapidly rising food prices even when dietary diversity and caloric intake is stable.

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  • Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell & Seff,Ilana Julie & De La Fuente,Alejandro, 2018. "Food insecurity and rising food prices : what do we learn from experiential measures ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8442, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8442
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    1. World Bank Group, 2017. "Republic of Malawi Poverty Assessment," World Bank Publications - Reports 26488, The World Bank Group.
    2. Kalle Hirvonen & Alan de Brauw & Gashaw T. Abate, 2021. "Food Consumption and Food Security during the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Addis Ababa," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(3), pages 772-789, May.

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