Household living conditions and food insecurity in Nigeria: a longitudinal study during COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study set out to investigate the risk of household food insecurity in Nigeria during the novel COVID-19 pandemic using a harmonised dataset of Nigeria's prepandemic face-to-face survey and two waves of the COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey (NLPS).

Setting

Nigeria.

Participants

A representative sample of 1674 households is used in the analysis.

Design

A longitudinal study.

Results

Our longitudinal study reveals a significant increase in the prevalence of food insecurity in Nigeria during the COVID-19 crisis. For a sample of 1674 households used in the analysis, nearly 32% were moderately food insecure in the baseline survey (ie, the prepandemic period), compared with 74% and 72% that faced the same degree of food insecurity in the

SUBMITTER: Orjiakor EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826925 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature