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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Household Resilience"”.
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Impacts of Crop Diversification and Household Resilience on Welfare and Child Nutrition in Senegal
… nutrition. In Senegal’s Groundnut Basin, where households rely on rain-fed farming and have limited formal risk-management options, crop diversification and household resilience are central strategies for protecting welfare. Although both are widely promoted as risk-management strategies, …
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Rural households and shocks: Asset transfer, migration and civil conflict
… the impact of an asset transfer program on household resilience, where resilience is defined as the probability that a household will sustain at least the threshold asset level required to support consumption above the poverty line. Using six rounds of data collected over 42 months in rural …
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Building resilience and ensuring food security in Ethiopia amid multiple shocks
This thesis examines household resilience, shock exposure, and food security in Ethiopia under overlapping climatic, economic, health, and political shocks. Using nationally representative panel data from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESPS/LSMS–ISA) for 2018/19 and 2021/22, the study analyzes …
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The impact of staple crop value chain participation on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nigeria and Malawi: changes in poverty, gender relations, and food security
… healthcare and small assets that contribute to household resilience. However, the transformative power of cassava commercialisation to reduce poverty is limited due to market and supply-related challenges, linked to the uncertain economic and environmental context. Smallholder strategies and …
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Essays on Smallholder Behavior in Response to Resource Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
… which in turn can amplify negative impacts on households. Social protection programs need to account for potential increases in seasonal price variability in the design of programs to enhance household resilience to weather shocks. To better understand the household behavior that gives rise to …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Food Security Status and Mental Health Among SNAP-Eligible Virginia Mothers
… shortages by reducing their own intake and make household food decisions. The current literature on the relationship between food security status and mental health in the U.S. lacks a clear framework for the relationship between these two phenomena. This dissertation describes three studies that …
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‘To be bent without breaking …’: Resilience to Water Scarcity in an Informal Settlement in Lima, Peru
… acting within it. It does this by investigating resilience to urban water scarcity in an environment of rapid change along three proxy indicators; perceptions, control and flexibility. Resilience is holistically defined as pertaining to both individuals and their supporting environments; and with …