The Global Food Crisis: Disaster, Opportunity or Non-event? Household Level Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Dimova, Ralitza; Gbakou, Monnet

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.02.007

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“…There is currently only one empirical study that examined the short-term welfare impacts of the 2007-2008 food price shock using contemporary (2008) crosssectional data from rural communities in Côte d'Ivoire (Dimova and Gbakou, 2013). Dimova and Gbakou's (2013) study was unable to capture the longer-term welfare impacts of the shock as the evaluation was undertaken at a time when the food price shock was still ongoing.…”

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The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Akter

Basher

2014

Global Environmental Change

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The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Akter

Basher

2014

Global Environmental Change

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“…To illustrate this point, Figure 2 presents the net benefit ratios for Côte d'Ivoire, a cash-crop-exporting and food-crop-importing country [6]. It shows net benefit ratios for rice, the main staple food in Côte d'Ivoire, alternative food items, and tropical cash crops (including cocoa, coffee, bananas, palm oil, rubber, cotton, and cashews) for households in different income quintiles in 2008, the year of a large increase in food prices.…”

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The welfare impact of rising food prices

Dimova¹

2015

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“…Generally, these strategies involve a shift in diets from sorghum, millet, maize and root crops to rice and wheat which are often highly processed, imported, subsidized and available cheaply [22]. Cereals such as rice, wheat and maize are the basis of the urban diet and because they are internationally traded they can leave the urban poor even more exposed to global price fluctuations [93]. A dietary transition most often occurs in cities where these "cheap" foods are most accessible and where high food prices exclude the poor from accessing healthier food options or traditional foods.…”

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Wild Food, Prices, Diets and Development: Sustainability and Food Security in Urban Cameroon

Sneyd

2013

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This article analyses wild food consumption in urban areas of Cameroon. Building upon findings from Cameroon's Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) this case study presents empirical data collected from 371 household and market surveys in Cameroonian cities. It employs the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food's framework for understanding challenges related to the availability, accessibility, and adequacy of food. The survey data suggest that many wild/traditional foods are physically available in Cameroonian cities most of the time, including fruits, vegetables, spices, and insects. Cameroonians spend considerable sums of their food budget on wild foods. However, low wages and the high cost of city living constrain the social and economic access most people have to these foods. The data also suggest that imports of non-traditional staple foods, such as low cost rice, have increasingly priced potentially more nutritious or safe traditional local foods out of markets after the 2008 food price crisis. As a result, diets are changing in Cameroon as the resource-constrained population continues to resort to the coping strategy of eating cheaper imported foods such as refined rice or to eating less frequently. Cameroon's nutrition transition continues to be driven by need and not necessarily by the preferences of Cameroonian consumers. The implications of this reality for sustainability are troubling.

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The Global Food Crisis: Disaster, Opportunity or Non-event? Household Level Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

The welfare impact of rising food prices

Wild Food, Prices, Diets and Development: Sustainability and Food Security in Urban Cameroon

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