Covid-19 and urban food security in Ghana during the third wave

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorOnyango, Elizabeth Opiyo
dc.contributor.authorOwusu, Bernard
dc.contributor.authorCrush, Jonathan S.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-15T07:24:46Z
dc.date.available2023-03-15T07:24:46Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractWhile the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on household food security have been documented, the intensity and forms of food insecurity in urban households in the Global South have not been adequately explored. This is despite the emerging consensus that impacts of the pandemic were more severe in urban than rural Africa. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by examining the relationship between pandemic precarity and food insecurity in Ghana�s urban areas during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This study is based on the World Bank (WB) and Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) COVID-19 High-Frequency Phone Survey. Using a sub-sample of 1423 urban households, the paper evaluates household experiences of the pandemic. Our findings show that household demographic characteristics are not a major predictor of food insecurity. Economic factors, especially the impact of the pandemic on wage income and total household income, were far more important, with those most affected being most food insecure.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOnyango, E. O. et al. (2023). Covid-19 and urban food security in Ghana during the third wave. Land, 12(2), 504. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020504en_US
dc.identifier.issn2073-445X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/land12020504
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/8582
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.subjectCovid-19en_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectFood securityen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectUnemploymenten_US
dc.titleCovid-19 and urban food security in Ghana during the third waveen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
onyango_covid-19 and urban food security in ghana_2023.pdf
Size:
606.06 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Research Artcicles (Geography & Environmental Studies)