COVID-19, food coping strategies and households resilience: the case of informal sector in Burkina Faso

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2023-05-18 DOI:10.1007/s12571-023-01371-7

Natéwindé Sawadogo, Youmanli Ouoba

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The closure of markets in the city of Ouagadougou due to COVID-19 pandemic has had consequences on the food security status of households, in particular households of informal sector. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of COVID-19 on households' likelihood to resort to food coping strategies taking into account their resilience capacities. A survey was carried out among 503 households of small traders in five markets in the city of Ouagadougou. This survey identified seven mutually inclusive food coping strategies which are endogenous and exogenous to households. Thus, the multivariate probit model was used to identify the factors explaining the adoption of these strategies. The results indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on households’ likelihood to use certain food coping strategies. Furthermore, the results show that assets and access to basic services is the main pillar of household resilience that reduces how likely a household resort to coping strategies due to COVID-19. Therefore, strengthening adaptive capacity and improving social security of households of informal sector are relevant.

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2019冠状病毒病、粮食应对战略和家庭抵御力:以布基纳法索非正规部门为例

由于COVID-19大流行，瓦加杜古市市场关闭，对家庭，特别是非正规部门家庭的粮食安全状况产生了影响。本文的目的是分析2019冠状病毒病对家庭在考虑其抵御能力的情况下采取食物应对策略的可能性的影响。对瓦加杜古市五个市场的503户小商贩家庭进行了调查。这项调查确定了七个相互包容的食物应对策略，这些策略对家庭来说是内生的和外生的。因此，我们使用多元概率模型来确定解释采用这些策略的因素。结果表明，COVID-19大流行对家庭使用某些食物应对策略的可能性产生了影响。此外，结果表明，资产和获得基本服务是家庭抵御能力的主要支柱，可以降低家庭因COVID-19而采取应对策略的可能性。因此，加强非正规部门家庭的适应能力和改善社会保障是相关的。

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

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14.00

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6.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.