The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security

Headey, Derek D.

Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank

关键词: agriculture;    cereals;    dairy;    eggs;    food insecurity;   

DOI  :  10.1093/wber/lhs033

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

We provide the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007–08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or even improved, seemingly owing to a combination of strong economic growth and limited food inflation in some of the most populous countries, particularly India. However, these favorable global trends mask divergent trends at the national and regional levels, with a number of countries reporting substantial deterioration in food security. The impacts of the global crisis therefore appear to be highly context specific.