Does the female-headed household suffer more than the male-headed from Covid-19 impact on food security? Evidence from Ethiopia
Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying policy measures affected women's economic and social lives differently from men. However, its effect on the food security situation of women and men remains unclear. This study investigated whether female-headed households suffer more from covid 19 impact on f...
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| description | Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying policy measures affected women's economic and social lives differently from men. However, its effect on the food security situation of women and men remains unclear. This study investigated whether female-headed households suffer more from covid 19 impact on food security than male-headed households in Ethiopia using the World Bank High Frequency Phone Survey data. Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) is applied to measure food insecurity and multilevel-mixed effect random intercept linear model is used to analyze the determinants. The survey data show that, during the pandemic in 2020, nearly 27% of households face moderate or severe food insecurity and close to 6% face severe food insecurity. Regression results revealed that the pandemic and accompanying policy measures affected food security of female-headed households differently from male-headed households. The likelihood of female-headed households experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity is significantly higher by 5.7% points than male-headed households. Education level of the household head is the critical determinant of women's food insecurity. Every additional year of education of female heads has a significantly higher impact in reducing the likelihood of experiencing food insecurity than that of male-headed households. It is also found that having access to basic food items reduces the likelihood of facing moderate or severe food insecurity by 7.4% points. Besides, education level of the household head, income change and family size are critical determinants for food insecurity of the sample households. It is recommended that stakeholders and policy makers focus in the gender aspect while designing policy measures to control pandemics and fucus on improving accessibility of basic needs such as food items to all. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-754b978b45d643fdaaf4960d897b5b7d2023-05-21T04:35:40ZengElsevierJournal of Agriculture and Food Research2666-15432023-06-0112100563Does the female-headed household suffer more than the male-headed from Covid-19 impact on food security? Evidence from EthiopiaLingerh Sewnet Akalu0Huashu Wang1University of Gondar, Ethiopia; GuiZhou University, ChinaGuiZhou University, China; Corresponding author.Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying policy measures affected women's economic and social lives differently from men. However, its effect on the food security situation of women and men remains unclear. This study investigated whether female-headed households suffer more from covid 19 impact on food security than male-headed households in Ethiopia using the World Bank High Frequency Phone Survey data. Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) is applied to measure food insecurity and multilevel-mixed effect random intercept linear model is used to analyze the determinants. The survey data show that, during the pandemic in 2020, nearly 27% of households face moderate or severe food insecurity and close to 6% face severe food insecurity. Regression results revealed that the pandemic and accompanying policy measures affected food security of female-headed households differently from male-headed households. The likelihood of female-headed households experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity is significantly higher by 5.7% points than male-headed households. Education level of the household head is the critical determinant of women's food insecurity. Every additional year of education of female heads has a significantly higher impact in reducing the likelihood of experiencing food insecurity than that of male-headed households. It is also found that having access to basic food items reduces the likelihood of facing moderate or severe food insecurity by 7.4% points. Besides, education level of the household head, income change and family size are critical determinants for food insecurity of the sample households. It is recommended that stakeholders and policy makers focus in the gender aspect while designing policy measures to control pandemics and fucus on improving accessibility of basic needs such as food items to all.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154323000704Covid-19 pandemicFood insecurityFood insecurity experience scale (FIES)Female-headed householdEthiopia |
| spellingShingle | Lingerh Sewnet Akalu Huashu Wang Does the female-headed household suffer more than the male-headed from Covid-19 impact on food security? Evidence from Ethiopia Journal of Agriculture and Food Research Covid-19 pandemic Food insecurity Food insecurity experience scale (FIES) Female-headed household Ethiopia |
| title | Does the female-headed household suffer more than the male-headed from Covid-19 impact on food security? Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_full | Does the female-headed household suffer more than the male-headed from Covid-19 impact on food security? Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Does the female-headed household suffer more than the male-headed from Covid-19 impact on food security? Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does the female-headed household suffer more than the male-headed from Covid-19 impact on food security? Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_short | Does the female-headed household suffer more than the male-headed from Covid-19 impact on food security? Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_sort | does the female headed household suffer more than the male headed from covid 19 impact on food security evidence from ethiopia |
| topic | Covid-19 pandemic Food insecurity Food insecurity experience scale (FIES) Female-headed household Ethiopia |
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