title: [Devaluation of the African Financial Community franc and the dietary strategies of families in Bamako (Mali)].
abstract: This survey, conducted in 1996, evaluated changes in the way families feed themselves caused by the effects of devaluation of the CFA franc. It involved semi-directed interviews with 64 subjects from various socio-economic backgrounds (affluent, middle-class, poor). The subjects spoke of the difficulties of daily life, lack of money and rapid, unpredictable rises in the prices of essential goods caused by the devaluation. They did not understand the reasons for the devaluation, which has caused rapid changes in the social conditions and nutrition of urban families and has exacerbated the inequality of access to foodstuffs. Affluent families have adopted strategies that increase the family food budget, compensating for price increases. The meals of poor and middle-class families have been directly affected in both structure and content. Poor families have been particularly badly affected. All the changes in strategy, and substitutions of one product for another described by middle-class families were already being used by the poor families before devaluation.
authors.affiliation: Centre international de l'enfance et de la famille, carrefour de Longchamps Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ag Bendech
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chauliac
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gerbouin-Rerolle
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kante
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Malvy
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002017:Budgets; D004032:Diet; D005518:Food Preferences; D005523:Food Supply / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007250:Inflation, Economic; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008302:Mali; D008612:Menu Planning; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D012923:Social Class; D012924:Social Conditions; D014504:Urban Health
vernacular_title: Dévaluation du franc CFA et stratégies alimentaires des familles à Bamako (Mali).