@article{d4e814e1344344a0810c52eb50b170e4,
title = "Food insecurity and COVID-19 risk in low- and middle-income countries",
abstract = "The COVID-19 pandemic prompted social distancing, workplace closures, and restrictions on mobility and trade that had cascading effects on economic activity, food prices, and employment in low- and middle-income countries. Using longitudinal data from Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria covering a period from October 2020 to April 2021, the paper assesses whether knowledge of a person infected with COVID-19 is associated with food insecurity, job loss and business closures, and coping strategies to smooth consumption. The likelihood of households to experience food insecurity at the extensive and intensive margins increased among those who knew an infected person in Bangladesh and Kenya.",
keywords = "COVID-19, food insecurity, low- and middle-income countries",
author = "Valerie Mueller and Gr{\'e}pin, {Karen A.} and Atonu Rabbani and Bianca Navia and Ngunjiri, {Anne S.W.} and Nicole Wu",
note = "Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the support by Simon Fraser University under the Gender and COVID-19 Project, which is financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under-investment INV-017300. We also thank Abishek Rajaswamy Kuppusamy, Erika Lisco, Nina Liu, Chandrika Mondal, Abida Sultana Sukta, Sartaj Kabir Diana, and our partners at IPA (especially, Henry Atimone, Elliott Collins, Steven Glazerman, John Mungai, Debborah Muthoki Wambua, Michael Rosenbaum, Eric Tawiah, and Shana Warren) for research advice and technical support throughout the project. We are also grateful to Malay Kanti Mridha for sharing the Bangladesh National Nutrition Services survey data to be used as our sample frame for Bangladesh; Abu Shonchoy for providing the COVID-19 case data for Bangladesh, and Eric Ochieng (Research Coordinator at IPA-Kenya) who helped prepare the COVID tracker data for Kenya. Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the support by Simon Fraser University under the Gender and COVID‐19 Project, which is financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under‐investment INV‐017300. We also thank Abishek Rajaswamy Kuppusamy, Erika Lisco, Nina Liu, Chandrika Mondal, Abida Sultana Sukta, Sartaj Kabir Diana, and our partners at IPA (especially, Henry Atimone, Elliott Collins, Steven Glazerman, John Mungai, Debborah Muthoki Wambua, Michael Rosenbaum, Eric Tawiah, and Shana Warren) for research advice and technical support throughout the project. We are also grateful to Malay Kanti Mridha for sharing the Bangladesh National Nutrition Services survey data to be used as our sample frame for Bangladesh; Abu Shonchoy for providing the COVID‐19 case data for Bangladesh, and Eric Ochieng (Research Coordinator at IPA‐Kenya) who helped prepare the COVID tracker data for Kenya. 1 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1002/aepp.13200",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "44",
pages = "92--109",
journal = "Review of Agricultural Economics",
issn = "2040-5790",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}