Abstract

BONFIGLIO, Juan Ignacio. Effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on food insecurity. Trab. soc. [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.36, pp.101-121.  Epub Jan 01, 2021. ISSN 1514-6871.

This work evaluates the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on the evolution of food insecurity in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires. Understanding the situation of food insecurity as the lack of access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food on a constant basis, not only the relative incidence of this deficit for households is analyzed according to a series of conditioning characteristics but also the dynamics that households experienced from of a longitudinal panel study. The working hypothesis maintains that the heterogeneous conditions of the labor market were a decisive element generating an unequal impact of the pandemic on food insecurity in the AMBA and that social policy played a protective role, although insufficient in this context. A quantitative design was implemented based on microdata from the Argentine Social Debt Survey, taking a panel made specially to account for the effects of the pandemic in May 2020. The study findings confirmed the working hypothesis by registering a significant increase in the incidence of food insecurity at the aggregate level, but even more important in households with more precarious insertions in the labor market, in turn, the positive effect, although insufficient, of social assistance policies for households in conditions of greater vulnerability.

Keywords : Food insecurity; Social inequality; occupational structure.

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