Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies
Household-level Evidence from Afghanistan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20301414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna D’souza (Economic Research Service, corresponding author), Anna D'Souza, Dean Jolliffe (0000-0002-7371-5598, World Bank Group) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 282-299 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00220388.2011.635422 |
| OpenAlex | W3125383561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article investigates the impact of rising wheat prices on household food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting a unique nationally-representative household survey, we find evidence of large declines in the real value of per capita food consumption. Smaller price elasticities with respect to calories than with respect to food consumption suggest that households trade off quality for quantity as they move away from nutrient-rich foods such as meat and vegetables toward staple foods. Our work improves upon country-level simulation studies by providing estimates of actual household food security during a price shock in one of the world's poorest, most food-insecure countries
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Calorie · Consumption (sociology) · Economics · Environmental health · Food prices · Food security · Geography · Monetary economics · Per capita · Population · Price shock · Shock (circulatory) · Staple food · Survey data collection · Value (mathematics) · Work (physics) · Agricultural risk and resilience · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
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| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |