Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security

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dc.contributor.authorDevereux, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorBéné, Christophe
dc.contributor.authorHoddinott, John
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-20T07:53:34Z
dc.date.available2020-10-20T07:53:34Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractCOVID-19 undermines food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could undermine food production, processing and marketing, but the most concerning impacts are on the demand-side – economic and physical access to food. This paper identifies three complementary frameworks that can contribute to understanding these effects, which are expected to persist into the post-pandemic phase, after lockdowns are lifted. FAO’s ‘four pillars’– availability, access, stability and utilisation – and the ‘food systems’ approach both provide holistic frameworks for analysing food security. Sen’s ‘entitlement’ approach is useful for disaggregating demand-side effects on household production-, labour-, trade- and transfer-based entitlements to food. Drawing on the strengths of each of these frameworks can enhance the understanding of the pandemic’s impacts on food security, while also pinpointing areas for governments and other actors to intervene in the food system, to protect the food security of households left vulnerable by COVID-19 and public responses.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDevereux, S., Béné, C., & Hoddinott, J. (2020). Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security. Food Security, 12(4), 769–772. DOI 10.1007/s12571-020-01085-0en_US
dc.identifier.other10.1007/s12571-020-01085-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5285
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.subjectHousehold food securityen_US
dc.subjectFour pillarsen_US
dc.subjectFood systemsen_US
dc.subjectEntitlement approachen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.titleConceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food securityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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