The effects of crime and violence on food insecurity and consumption in Nigeria

IF 6.8 1区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY Food Policy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102404

Heidi Kaila , Abul Azad

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Abstract

Households living in conflict-affected areas are vulnerable to violence and crime perpetrated by various types of actors. By exploiting variation in the timing, intensity, and spatial distribution of attacks against households in Nigeria, this study finds that becoming a victim leads to higher food insecurity and decreased food and non-food consumption. Property crimes are more detrimental to consumption and food insecurity than violence is. The findings remain robust to accounting for conflict in the geographical proximity to the household. Our results indicate that information on victimization can be used for building safety nets in conflict-affected areas.

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犯罪和暴力对尼日利亚粮食不安全和消费的影响

生活在受冲突影响地区的家庭很容易受到各类行动者的暴力和犯罪的伤害。通过分析尼日利亚家庭遭受袭击的时间、强度和空间分布的差异，本研究发现，成为受害者会导致粮食不安全状况加剧，粮食和非粮食消费减少。财产犯罪对消费和粮食不安全的危害比暴力更大。研究结果仍然有力地解释了与家庭地理位置接近的冲突。我们的研究结果表明，受害情况的信息可用于在受冲突影响的地区建立安全网。

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Food Policy 管理科学-农业经济与政策

CiteScore

11.40

自引率

4.60%

发文量

128

审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： Food Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on the economic and social aspect of food policy, and we prioritize empirical studies informing international food policy debates. Provided that articles make a clear and explicit contribution to food policy debates of international interest, we consider papers from any of the social sciences. Papers from other disciplines (e.g., law) will be considered only if they provide a key policy contribution, and are written in a style which is accessible to a social science readership.