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Poverty impacts of food price increases in Kenya

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Title Poverty impacts of food price increases in Kenya
 
Creator Minot, Nicholas
Martin, Will
 
Subject staple foods
grains
diets
prices
markets
coronavirus
coronavirus disease
coronavirinae
covid-19
ukaine
poverty
 
Description Kenya is potentially very vulnerable to sharp increases in the prices of key staple grains such as maize and wheat, both because these are important in diets and because Kenya depends on imports of these products. A first step in understanding the impacts of changes in the prices of these products is to examine developments in their prices on world markets. After a long period of relatively stable prices on world markets, the prices of key food staples began to rise from around the beginning of 2020. This period of price increases, spanning the COVID-19 pandemic and then the price shocks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raised serious concerns about the welfare of poor people in countries such as Kenya. Figure 1 shows the movements in the prices of four key grain staples—maize, rice, sorghum and wheat—from the beginning of 2020.
 
Date 2023-08-30
2023-10-25T20:31:53Z
2023-10-25T20:31:53Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Minot, Nicholas; and Martin, Will. 2023. Poverty impacts of food price increases in Kenya. Global Crisis Country Brief 23. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136853
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132458
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136853
 
Language en
 
Relation Global Crisis Country Brief
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 8 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute