The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security

We provide the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007–08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or even improved,...

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Main Author:	Headey, Derek D.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
Subjects:	agriculture cereals dairy eggs food insecurity food intake food needs food policy food policy research food prices food security global food security IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute maize meat nonalcoholic beverages rice staple foods wheat
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19084

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spelling	okr-10986-190842021-04-23T14:03:51Z The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security Headey, Derek D. agriculture cereals dairy eggs food insecurity food intake food needs food policy food policy research food prices food security global food security IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute maize meat nonalcoholic beverages rice staple foods wheat We provide the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007–08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or even improved, seemingly owing to a combination of strong economic growth and limited food inflation in some of the most populous countries, particularly India. However, these favorable global trends mask divergent trends at the national and regional levels, with a number of countries reporting substantial deterioration in food security. The impacts of the global crisis therefore appear to be highly context specific. 2014-07-30T20:48:23Z 2014-07-30T20:48:23Z 2013-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X 10.1093/wber/lhs033 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19084 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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spellingShingle	agriculture cereals dairy eggs food insecurity food intake food needs food policy food policy research food prices food security global food security IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute maize meat nonalcoholic beverages rice staple foods wheat Headey, Derek D. The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security
description	We provide the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007–08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or even improved, seemingly owing to a combination of strong economic growth and limited food inflation in some of the most populous countries, particularly India. However, these favorable global trends mask divergent trends at the national and regional levels, with a number of countries reporting substantial deterioration in food security. The impacts of the global crisis therefore appear to be highly context specific.
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author	Headey, Derek D.
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title	The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security
title_short	The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security
title_full	The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security
title_fullStr	The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security
title_full_unstemmed	The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security
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publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security

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