Preparing for COVID-19: Household food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks in Nairobi, Kenya
| العنوان: | Preparing for COVID-19: Household food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks in Nairobi, Kenya |
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| المؤلفون: | Elizabeth Opiyo Onyango, Jonathan Crush, Samuel Owuor |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021) PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e0259139 (2021) |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Viral Diseases, Urban Population, Hunger, Epidemiology, Economics, Vulnerability, Social Sciences, Food Supply, 0302 clinical medicine, Medical Conditions, Pandemic, Medicine and Health Sciences, Microeconomics, Public and Occupational Health, 030212 general & internal medicine, Economic impact analysis, Socioeconomics, 2. Zero hunger, Multidisciplinary, Food security, Emergency management, Geography, Physics, 05 social sciences, 1. No poverty, Middle Aged, Socioeconomic Aspects of Health, 3. Good health, Urban Economics, Infectious Diseases, General partnership, Physical Sciences, Income, Medicine, Female, 050202 agricultural economics & policy, Research Article, Adult, Science, Biophysics, Context (language use), Human Geography, Urban Geography, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0502 economics and business, Humans, Cities, Pandemics, Aged, Nutrition, Descriptive statistics, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Biology and Life Sciences, Covid 19, Kenya, Diet, Health Care, Food Insecurity, Socioeconomic Factors, Food, Labor Economics, Earth Sciences, business |
| الوصف: | An understanding of the types of shocks that disrupt and negatively impact urban household food security is of critical importance to develop relevant and targeted food security emergency preparedness policies and responses, a fact magnified by the current COVID-19 pandemic. This gap is addressed by the current study which draws from the Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) city-wide household food insecurity survey of Nairobi city in Kenya. It uses both descriptive statistics and multilevel modelling using General Linear Mixed Models (GLMM) to examine the relationship between household food security and 16 different shocks experienced in the six months prior to the administration of the survey. The findings showed that only 29% of surveyed households were completely food secure. Of those experiencing some level of food insecurity, more experienced economic (55%) than sociopolitical (16%) and biophysical (10%) shocks. Economic shocks such as food price increases, loss of employment, and reduced income were all associated with increased food insecurity. Coupled with the lack of functioning social safety nets in Nairobi, households experiencing shocks and emergencies experience serious food insecurity and related health effects. In this context, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a major negative economic impact on many vulnerable urban households. As such, there is need for new policies on urban food emergencies with a clear emergency preparedness plan for responding to major economic and other shocks that target the most vulnerable. |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c0c4251b6ee6368ad5ffcada18d12ca6Test https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34762674Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....c0c4251b6ee6368ad5ffcada18d12ca6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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