COVID-19 and food security in Ethiopia: Do social protection programs protect?

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dc.creatorAbay, Kibrom A.
dc.creatorBerhane, Guush
dc.creatorHoddinott, John F.
dc.creatorTafere, Kibrom
dc.date2020-11-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:15:04Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:15:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:33:31Z
dc.descriptionWe assess the impact of Ethiopia’s flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition security of households, mothers, and children. We use both pre-pandemic in-person household survey data and a post-pandemic phone survey. Two thirds of our respondents reported that their incomes had fallen after the pandemic began and almost half reported that their ability to satisfy their food needs had worsened. Employing a household fixed effects difference-in-difference approach, we find that the household food insecurity increased by 11.7 percentage points and the size of the food gap by 0.47 months in the aftermath of the onset of the pandemic. Participation in the PSNP offsets virtually all of this adverse change; the likelihood of becoming food insecure increased by only 2.4 percentage points for PSNP households and the duration of the food gap increased by only 0.13 months. The protective role of PSNP is greater for poorer households and those living in remote areas. Results are robust to definitions of PSNP participation, different estimators and how we account for the non-randomness of mobile phone ownership. PSNP households were less likely to reduce expenditures on health and education by 7.7 percentage points and were less likely to reduce expenditures on agricultural inputs by 13 percentage points. By contrast, mothers’ and children’s diets changed little, despite some changes in the composition of diets with consumption of animal source foods declining significantly.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143557
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/107764
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34794
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134179
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134381
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1086/715831
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAbay, Kibrom A.; Berhane, Guush; Hoddinott, John F.; and Tafere, Kibrom. 2020. COVID-19 and food security in Ethiopia: Do social protection programs protect? IFPRI Discussion Paper 1972. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134146.
dc.subjectincome
dc.subjectnutrition security
dc.subjectprogrammes
dc.subjectcovid-19
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectsocial safety nets
dc.subjectdietary diversity
dc.titleCOVID-19 and food security in Ethiopia: Do social protection programs protect?
dc.typeWorking Paper

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