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Macro-Economic Effects of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity: Evidence from Select COMESA Countries

African Journal of Economic Review

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Title Macro-Economic Effects of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity: Evidence from Select COMESA Countries
 
Creator Mugume, Regean
Muhumuza, Roland
 
Subject Macroeconomic Effect; Food Security; COVID-19; COMESA; Pooled Mean ARDL
 
Description Globally, the COVID 19 outbreak and its subsequent containment measures have greatly disrupted global and regional food supply chains posing a big threat to food security. Our study examines the macroeconomic effect of the COVID 19 pandemic on food security in the COMESA region. The study adopted a pooled mean Autoregressive Distribution Lag model (ARDL) to estimate the impact of macro-economic factors and food insecurity in the face of COVID 19 pandemic in the select COMESA countries. Our results reveal a significant long run relationship between food insecurity and food inflation, food trade and COVID 19 registered cases in the COMESA countries. These findings point to need by governments to implement standard operating procedures, roll out vaccinations to curtail the wide spread of the pandemic while providing safety nets to support the poor vulnerable communities to purchase food. Furthermore, the COMESA members need to purse a coordinated strategy to food security to enhance intra-regional trade, food distribution and production.
 
Publisher Centre for Economics and Community Economic Development
 
Date 2021-07-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer/article/view/210886
 
Source African Journal of Economic Review; Vol. 9 No. 3 (2021): Special Issue on COVID-19; 84-105
2453-5966
1821-8148
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer/article/view/210886/199032