Food strategies of urban households in Cote d'Ivoire following the 1994 CFA franc devaluation

摘要

To examine how households reacted to the CFA devaluation in Cote d'Ivoire in January 1994, a three part study was conducted. The first phase was a small survey (25 households) in Abidjan, the capital, three months after the devaluation. The second phase focused on food consumption behaviour of 210 households, spread over 10 communes in Abidjan during March 1995. The third phase began with the hypothesis that three years after the devaluation consumers would have moved from 'immediate post-devaluation adjustments' to 'stable behaviour', and was designed to ascertain these patterns and compare them with the patterns observed in the two prior surveys. Sections examine: the basic diet patterns in Cote d'Ivoire; the methods used in the third survey; the results, discussion and implications that arose from the survey; and the general patterns of urban food consumption in the two largest cities, Abidjan and Bouake.