Cassimon, Danny ORCID: 0000-0002-0460-3488 , Fadare, Olusegun ORCID: 0000-0002-0647-7438 and Mavrotas, George (2023) The impact of food aid and governance on food and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainability, 15 (2):1417. pp. 1-19. ISSN 2071-1050 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021417)

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the impact of food aid and governance quality (the latter disaggregated in different components) on both food and nutrition security in the SSA region and for a sample of 25 countries over the period 1996 to 2018. The main novelty and contribution of the paper in the relevant literature is by providing macro-level evidence in the SSA region to complement country-specific evidence in this research area. We also use different food and nutrition security outcome measures, which include the average value of food production, average dietary energy supply adequacy, and prevalence of undernourishment. Furthermore, we combine the above with the use of both aggregated and disaggregated governance indicators to examine the impact of governance quality on the outcome variables. We find evidence of a robust relationship between food aid, governance quality, and food and nutrition security outcomes by employing the GMM estimator. We also find that food aid increases food and nutrition security while it reduces undernourishment. Among the various governance quality indicators we have employed, the control of corruption and political stability show a significant relationship with the measured outcomes. However, the composite governance index and food aid jointly have no significant effect on food security, but they significantly increase nutrition security and reduce undernourishment across the various empirical models we have employed in our empirical analysis. An important policy lesson emanating from our empirical findings is that controlling corruption and maintaining political stability may have significant implications for enhancing the impact of food aid on food and nutrition security in the region.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Security and Sustainability in the Global South.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	food aid; food security; nutrition security; governance indicators; GMM estimation; SSA
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions Department
Last Modified:	15 Jan 2024 10:24
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/44726

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