Food Aid's Effects on Household Behavior in Rural Ethiopia
Title | Food Aid's Effects on Household Behavior in Rural Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Takashi Yamano |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Food relief |
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Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia
Title | Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Luc J. Christiaensen |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 31 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Children |
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Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several droughts during this period, it also received enormous amounts of food aid, leading some to question the effectiveness of food aid in reducing child malnutrition. Using nationally representative household surveys from 1995-96 and controlling for program placement, Yamano, Alderman, and Christiaensen find that children between 6 and 24 months experienced about 0.9 cm less growth over a six-month period in communities where half the crop area was damaged compared with those without crop damage. Food aid was also found to have a substantial effect on the growth of children in this age group. And on average, the total amount of food aid appeared to be sufficient to protect children against plot damage, an encouraging sign that food aid can act as an effective insurance mechanism, though its cost-effectiveness needs further investigation.
Impacts of COVID-19 on food security: Panel data evidence from Nigeria
Title | Impacts of COVID-19 on food security: Panel data evidence from Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Amare, Mulubrhan |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 2020-08-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
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This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to quantify the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. We exploit spatial variation in exposure to COVID-19 related infections and lockdown measures along with temporal differences in our outcomes of interest using a difference-in-difference approach. We find that those households exposed to higher COVID-19 cases or mobility lockdowns experience a significant increase in measures of food insecurity. Examining possible transmission channels for this effect, we find that COVID-19 significantly reduces labor market participation and increases food prices. We find that impacts differ by economic activities and households. For instance, lockdown measures increased households' experience of food insecurity by 12 percentage points and reduced the probability of participation in non-farm business activities by 13 percentage points. These lockdown measures have smaller impacts on wage-related activities and farming activities. In terms of food security, households relying on non-farm businesses, poorer households, those with school-aged children, and those living in remote and conflicted-affected zones have experienced relatively larger deteriorations in food insecurity. These findings can help inform immediate and medium-term policy responses, including social protection policies aiming at ameliorating the impacts of the pandemic, as well as guide targeting strategies of governments and international donor agencies by identifying the most impacted sub-populations.
Hearing to Review Food Aid and Agriculture Trade Programs Operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development
Title | Hearing to Review Food Aid and Agriculture Trade Programs Operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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An assessment of IFPRIS work in Ethiopia 19952010: Ideology, influence, and idiosyncrasy
Title | An assessment of IFPRIS work in Ethiopia 19952010: Ideology, influence, and idiosyncrasy PDF eBook |
Author | Mitch Renkow, and Roger Slade |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 142 |
Release | |
Genre | Social Science |
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Hearing to Review Food Aid and Agriculture Trade Programs Operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture ..., Serial No. 110-21, May 10, 2007, 110-1 Hearing, *
Title | Hearing to Review Food Aid and Agriculture Trade Programs Operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture ..., Serial No. 110-21, May 10, 2007, 110-1 Hearing, * PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2009 |
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International Food Aid Programs
Title | International Food Aid Programs PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Political Science |
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