Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan

This article investigates the impact of rising wheat prices on household food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting a unique nationally-representative household survey, we find evidence of large declines in the real value of per capita food consumption. Smaller price elasticities with respect to calor...

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Main Authors:	D’Souza, Anna, Jolliffe, Dean
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2013
Subjects:	food security high food prices nutrition poverty
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13345

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spelling	okr-10986-133452021-04-23T14:03:08Z Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan D’Souza, Anna Jolliffe, Dean food security high food prices nutrition poverty This article investigates the impact of rising wheat prices on household food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting a unique nationally-representative household survey, we find evidence of large declines in the real value of per capita food consumption. Smaller price elasticities with respect to calories than with respect to food consumption suggest that households trade off quality for quantity as they move away from nutrient-rich foods such as meat and vegetables toward staple foods. Our work improves upon country-level simulation studies by providing estimates of actual household food security during a price shock in one of the world's poorest, most food-insecure countries. 2013-05-09T16:14:25Z 2013-05-09T16:14:25Z 2012-02-28 Journal Article Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13345 en_US Journal of Development Studies;48(2) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Taylor and Francis Journal Article Afghanistan
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description	This article investigates the impact of rising wheat prices on household food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting a unique nationally-representative household survey, we find evidence of large declines in the real value of per capita food consumption. Smaller price elasticities with respect to calories than with respect to food consumption suggest that households trade off quality for quantity as they move away from nutrient-rich foods such as meat and vegetables toward staple foods. Our work improves upon country-level simulation studies by providing estimates of actual household food security during a price shock in one of the world's poorest, most food-insecure countries.
format	Journal Article
author	D’Souza, Anna Jolliffe, Dean
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title	Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan
title_short	Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan
title_full	Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan
title_fullStr	Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan
title_full_unstemmed	Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan
title_sort	rising food prices and coping strategies : household-level evidence from afghanistan
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan

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