@article{,
    author = {Balgah, Roland Azibo; Benjamin, Emmanuel Olatunbosun; Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon; Buchenrieder, Gertrud},
    title = {COVID-19 impact on agriculture and food security in Africa : A systematic review and meta-analysis},
    editor = {},
    booktitle = {},
    series = {},
    journal = {World Development Perspectives},
    address = {},
    publisher = {},
    edition = {},
    year = {2023},
    isbn = {},
    volume = {31},
    number =  {},
    pages = {100523},
    url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292923000395},
    doi = {10.1016/j.wdp.2023.100523},
    keywords = {COVID-19 Agriculture ; Food security ; Systematic review ; Meta-analysis ; Africa},
    abstract = {While agriculture is the life-wire for many African economies, the sector has been exposed to multiple shocks, leading to food insecurity concerns. COVID-19′s seemingly perennial nature suggests the need for African agrarian systems to explore pathways to achieve food security in the midst of pandemics. However, existing knowledge on the effects of COVID-19 agriculture and food security remains fragmented. This article reviews preliminary documented and projected effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on agriculture and food security in Africa, combining an inter-rater reliability (IRR) – based systematic review with meta-analysis on 74 rigorously selected published items, including 157 case studies. Our analysis hitches on the sustainable livelihoods framework and a novel systematic review and meta-analysis protocol (Tadesse, 2020). An IRR score of 0.93 suggests overwhelming convergence of contemporary COVID-19 scholarship on the negative economic effects of COVID-19 on agricultural supply and demand across Africa, which, in combination with other factors, culminates in increasing, multi-dimensional food insecurity, hitting hard on the poor and vulnerable. The meta-analysis suggests that agriculture is more exposed to COVID-19 effects than other (non-agricultural) sectors, with an overall pooled association effect size (RR) for the COVID-19 pandemic and farming occupation of 1.25 (95% CI, 0.72–0.96;P = 0.01), and significant heterogeneity between studies (Ι2 = 100%,P < 0.00). Future reviews and meta analyses increasingly focusing on methodological details are recommended, to provide insights on COVID-19 effects on African agriculture and food security. Policy implications of prolonged COVID-19 effects on agriculture and food security in Africa are then contemplated.},
    note = {},
    institution = {Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Staats- und Sozialwissenschaften, SOWI 5 - Institut für Soziologie und Volkswirtschaftslehre, Professur: Buchenrieder, Gertrud},
    
    
}