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KATHMANDU, MARCH 08
Food security has been a significant concern for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), even before the onslaught of challenges brought about by COVID-19.
As the pandemic started spreading to the region, one concern has been that of its possible impacts on food security, as the crisis has the potential to exacerbate an already fragile food security environment.
Data from a series of high-frequency phone surveys (HFPS), collected with support from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, allow for the analysis of food security challenges in the midst of the COV- ID-19 environment.
The HFPS data used here, a selection of countries with HFPS data, have been collected primarily by national statistics offices in five SSA countries, each of which is a part of the LSMS-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) project that fields longitudinal, multi-topic household surveys with a focus on agriculture.
The results presented here reflect the following survey rounds, unless otherwise indicated.
A version of this article appears in the print on March 09, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
