ASDEV

Food Systems Resilience to COVID-19 Shocks in Cameroon & Ghana

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented across scales and geographies the vulnerability of our food systems to systemic shock. How different food systems, especially those in Africa responded to this shock remains an understudied issue that needs urgent attention for better future policy direction and research needs. Here, ASDEV is currently working with survey data from more than 500 households in Ghana and Cameroon to understand their resilience and response to the impacts of COVID-19. The aim of the project is to present, using econometric modeling, the different levels of household food security amongst others in these countries.

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented across scales and geographies the vulnerability of our food systems to systemic shock. How different food systems, especially those in Africa responded to this shock remains an understudied issue that needs urgent attention for better future policy direction and research needs. Here, ASDEV is currently working with survey data from more than 500 households in Ghana and Cameroon to understand their resilience and response to the impacts of COVID-19. The aim of the project is to present, using econometric modeling, the different levels of household food security amongst others in these countries.