Rapidly rising food prices and the experience of food insecurity in urban Ethiopia: Impacts on health and well-being

► Recent food crises have increased interest in food security, especially in urban populations. ► Much work has focused on identifying who was affected but less on how people were affected. ► We bring an anthropological perspective to examine how people responded to a rise in food prices in urban Ethiopia. ► Our results demonstrate community-level effects on sharing and ritual and non-nutritional impacts of food insecurity. ► We conclude that food crises may have much broader societal and health effects than (appears) appreciated.