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Verfasst von:Kansiime, Monica K.
 Tambo, Justice A.
 Mugambi, Idah
 Bundi, Mary
 Kara, Augustine
 Owuor, Charles
Titel:COVID-19 implications on household income and food security in Kenya and Uganda: Findings from a rapid assessment
Verlagsort:England
Verlag:Elsevier Ltd
 Elsevier Science Publishers
 Pergamon Press Inc
 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd
Jahr:2021
Fussnoten:ObjectType-Article-1 ; ObjectType-Feature-2 ; SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ; content type line 23
Inhalt:•We assessed COVID-19 implications on household income and food security using in Kenya and Uganda.•More than two-thirds of households experienced income shocks and worsened food security.•Food security outcomes were worse among the income poor and households dependent on labour income.•Labour-dependent and income poor households employed food-based coping strategies.•Membership in savings groups was more likely to mitigate member’s income shocks than NSSF. This study assessed implications of the Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic on household income and food security in two East African countries – Kenya and Uganda, using online survey data from 442 respondents. Results show that more than two-thirds of the respondents experienced income shocks due to the COVID-19 crisis. Food security and dietary quality worsened, as measured by the food insecurity experience scale and the frequency of consumption of nutritionally-rich foods. The proportion of food insecure respondents increased by 38% and 44% in Kenya and Uganda respectively, and in both countries, the regular consumption of fruits decreased by about 30% during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to a normal period (before the pandemic). Results from probit regressions show that the income-poor households and those dependent on labour income were more vulnerable to income shock, and had poorer food consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to other respondent categories. As such, they were more likely to employ food-based coping strategies compared to those pursuing alternative livelihoods, who generally relied on savings. Farmers were less likely to experience worsened food security compared to other respondent categories who depended to a great extent on market sources for food. In both countries, participation in national social security schemes was less likely to mitigate respondents’ income shock during the COVID-19 period. Conversely, membership in savings and loan groups was correlated with less likelihood of suffering income shocks and reduction in food consumption. The results suggest that ongoing and future government responses should focus on structural changes in social security by developing responsive packages to cushion members pushed into poverty by such pandemics while building strong financial institutions to support the recovery of businesses in the medium term, and ensuring the resilience of food supply chains particularly those making available nutrient-dense foods.
ISSN:0305-750X
Titel Quelle:World development
Jahr Quelle:2021
Band/Heft Quelle:137, S. 105199-105199
DOI:doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105199
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 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105199
Sprache:English
Sach-SW:Agricultural economics
 Analysis
 Assessments
 Coping
 Coping strategies
 Coronaviruses
 COVID-19
 Diet
 Dietary quality
 Economic conditions
 Family income
 Farmers
 Financial institutions
 Food
 Food availability
 Food chains
 Food consumption
 Food quality
 Food security
 Food sources
 Food supply
 Households
 Income
 Insecurity
 Institution building
 Internet
 Low income groups
 Medical research
 Medicine, Experimental
 Membership
 Nutrient availability
 Pandemics
 Personal income
 Poverty
 Probit model
 Regular
 Resilience
 Respondents
 Savings
 Savings & loan associations
 Social participation
 Social security
 Supply
 Supply chains
 Viral diseases
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