New Evidence in the Relationship Between Trade Openness and Food Security in SubSaharan Africa

This paper reexamines the effect of trade openness on food security in Sub-Saharan African countries. Panel data covering 37 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period from 2004 to 2018 were mobilized. In order to control the unobserved heterogeneity and the potential endogeneity of explanatory variables, the method of generalized moments in system was adopted. The empirical results show that trade openness significantly improves food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the presence of political instability, a deterioration of the food security situation is observed