Food Security and Weather Events

A Multidimensional Analysis in the West African Sahel for 2001-2017

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2309366
AutoresOudah Yobom (CESAER UMR1041, INRAE, Institut Agro, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France), Julie Le Gallo (0000-0002-7296-2415, CESAER UMR1041, INRAE, Institut Agro, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen60
Número5
Páginas2972-2993
Fecha de publicación2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00219096231225949
OpenAlexW4391293989
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

This paper analyzes the climatic factors that affected food security in the West African Sahel in 2001-2017. We estimate the impact of droughts and floods on the four dimensions of food security defined by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, based on a panel data model controlling for socioeconomic and political factors. Droughts and floods negatively affect food security with floods causing more damage. Since socioeconomic and political factors, especially conflicts, also play an important role, food security in the West African Sahel cannot be explained only by climatic problems, so that coordinated policies must be based on the four dimensions of food security

Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Environmental health · Food security · Geography · Meteorology · Natural disaster · Natural resource economics · Panel data · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Agricultural risk and resilience · Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations