From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks

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dc.creatorKoo, Jawoo
dc.creatorMamun, Abdullah
dc.creatorMartin, Will
dc.date2021-09-20
dc.date2024-05-22T12:10:16Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:10:16Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:05:22Z
dc.descriptionSince Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, and that availability-based policies frequently exacerbate adverse impacts on household welfare. Perhaps because household-level impacts are not directly observable many makers have continued to rely on availability-oriented policies such as export bans. In the Zambia case considered in this article, export bans imposed in response to an El Niño event appear to have greatly exacerbated the small increase in poverty resulting from the weather shock. The combination of household-level data and crop models used in this article allows us to assess the impacts of weather and price shocks at the household level, and to evaluate the suitability of availability-based policies for dealing with weather shocks. These analytical techniques can also help identify the households and regions adversely affected, and design policies to improve poor consumers’ access to food.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142283
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/94190
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Association of Agricultural Economists
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133705
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146143
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKoo, Jawoo; Mamun, Abdullah; and Martin, Will. 2021. From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks. Agricultural Economics 52(5): 833-847. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12657
dc.subjectmodels
dc.subjectel nino
dc.subjectexports
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjecttrade policies
dc.subjectspatial analysis
dc.subjecttrade
dc.subjectfood supply
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectweather
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.titleFrom bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks
dc.typeJournal Article

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