Determinants of household food resilience to Covid-19: Case of the Niayes zone in Senegal

Determinants of household food resilience to Covid-19: Case of the Niayes zone in Senegal | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Determinants of household food resilience to Covid-19: Case of the Niayes zone in Senegal Awa Diouf, Yoro Diallo, Mouhamadou Fallilou Ndiaye, Ibrahima Hathie This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2032744/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract The Covid-19 crisis had negative economic and social effects worldwide, and its repercussions have been more significant on vulnerable populations. This article examines the food resilience capacity of households in the Senegal’s Niayes area during the first wave of Covid-19, regarding the quality and quantity of meals consumed. We use an ordered probit model with field survey data collected from 443 households. Results highlight some significant determinants of household food resilience, including public and private social protection measures in place before and after the crisis. The ARC-Replica NGO Consortium’s money transfer program has enabled households to improve their food situation for all three included periods. However, food aid from the Senegalese government and the United Nations has been ineffective. Furthermore, measures settled to support households during the hunger gap (aid from ARC-Replica and the Office of the Food Security Commissioner) improved households food resilience. Thus, results show that for aid to be more effective, its objectives and the implementation period must be in line with the expectations and needs of target population. Therefore, the aid settled for agricultural households is more relevant during the hunger gap. Finally, endogenous resilience strategies, including diversity of income sources and migrant remittances, did not improve household food resilience during Covid-19. This highlights the importance of the negative internal and external effects of the crisis on households, but also the need for effective and recurrent social protection measures to sustainably improve household resilience to shocks. Food security Food systems Covid-19 Social protection Resilience strategies Vulnerable households Developing countries Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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