Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?

Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?

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 f...

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Main Authors: Jolliffe, Dean, Seff, Ilana, de la Fuente, Alejandro
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
FOOD SECURITY
FOOD PRICES
ANXIETY
LSMS
LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT SURVEY
INCOME STABILITY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/978411526318607170/Food-insecurity-and-rising-food-prices-what-do-we-learn-from-experiential-measures
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spelling okr-10986-298482021-06-08T14:42:46Z Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures? Jolliffe, Dean Seff, Ilana de la Fuente, Alejandro FOOD SECURITY FOOD PRICES ANXIETY LSMS LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT SURVEY INCOME STABILITY 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. 2018-05-16T20:56:43Z 2018-05-16T20:56:43Z 2018-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/978411526318607170/Food-insecurity-and-rising-food-prices-what-do-we-learn-from-experiential-measures http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29848 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8442 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Malawi
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topic FOOD SECURITY
FOOD PRICES
ANXIETY
LSMS
LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT SURVEY
INCOME STABILITY
spellingShingle FOOD SECURITY
FOOD PRICES
ANXIETY
LSMS
LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT SURVEY
INCOME STABILITY
Jolliffe, Dean
Seff, Ilana
de la Fuente, Alejandro
Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?
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relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8442
description 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.
format Working Paper
author Jolliffe, Dean
Seff, Ilana
de la Fuente, Alejandro
author_facet Jolliffe, Dean
Seff, Ilana
de la Fuente, Alejandro
author_sort Jolliffe, Dean
title Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?
title_short Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?
title_full Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?
title_fullStr Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?
title_full_unstemmed Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices : What Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?
title_sort food insecurity and rising food prices : what do we learn from experiential measures?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/978411526318607170/Food-insecurity-and-rising-food-prices-what-do-we-learn-from-experiential-measures
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