Food Insecurity and Rising Food Prices

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dc.creatorSeff, Ilana
dc.creatorJolliffe, Dean
dc.creatorde la Fuente, Alejandro
dc.date2018-05-16T20:56:43Z
dc.date2018-05-16T20:56:43Z
dc.date2018-05
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:42:15Z
dc.descriptionThroughout 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.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/978411526318607170/Food-insecurity-and-rising-food-prices-what-do-we-learn-from-experiential-measures
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29848
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-8442
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/409509
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8442
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectFOOD PRICES
dc.subjectANXIETY
dc.subjectLSMS
dc.subjectLIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT SURVEY
dc.subjectINCOME STABILITY
dc.titleFood Insecurity and Rising Food Prices
dc.titleWhat Do We Learn from Experiential Measures?
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
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