International humanitarian organizations have expressed substantial concern about the potential for increases in food insecurity resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a unique panel survey of a representative sample households in Addis Ababa to study both food security and food consumption during the pandemic. In contrast to some other countries in the region, Ethiopia never went into a full lockdown severely restricting movement. Despite subjective income measures suggesting a large proportion of households have been exposed to job loss or reduced incomes, we find that relative to a survey conducted in August and September of 2019, food consumption and household dietary diversity are largely unchanged or slightly increased by August 2020. We find some changes in the composition of food consumption, but they are not related to shocks found in previous phone surveys conducted with the same households. The results therefore suggest the types of subjective questions about income typically being asked in COVID-19 phone surveys may not appropriately reflect the magnitude of such shocks. They also imply, at least indirectly, that in the aggregate food value chains have been resilient to the shock associated with the pandemic.

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亚的斯亚贝巴 COVID-19 大流行期间的粮食消费和粮食安全。

国际人道主义组织对 COVID-19 大流行可能加剧粮食不安全表示严重关切。我们使用对亚的斯亚贝巴代表性样本家庭的独特小组调查来研究大流行期间的粮食安全和粮食消费。与该地区的其他一些国家相比，埃塞俄比亚从未进入严格限制行动的全面封锁。尽管主观收入指标表明大部分家庭面临失业或收入减少，但我们发现，相对于 2019 年 8 月和 9 月进行的一项调查，到 2020 年 8 月，食品消费和家庭饮食多样性基本没有变化或略有增加. 我们发现食物消费的构成发生了一些变化，但它们与之前对同一家庭进行的电话调查中发现的冲击无关。因此，结果表明，在 COVID-19 电话调查中通常会询问的有关收入的主观问题类型可能无法恰当地反映此类冲击的幅度。它们还暗示，至少间接地，食品价值链总体上能够抵御与大流行相关的冲击。