 Indexing household resilience to food insecurity shocks: The case of South SudanL.B. Lokosang, S. Ramroop and T. Zewotir Agrekon, 2014, vol. 53, issue 2, 137-159 Abstract: Based on a number of household characteristics, livelihood capitals and endowments, we generate a household food security resilience index. The rationale of the paper is premised on the notion that resilience to food insecurity is a property of wealth and thus its proxy. The study explored the statistical robustness and efficiency of the technique in providing evidence for triggering alerts and action for curbing risk of food insecurity uncertainties. It is established that Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is helpful in constructing a summary measure (referred to here as Household Resilience Index or HRI in short) that is an efficient proxy for wealth index, which is based on consumption data, and that predicts per capita consumption very well. The paper elaborates six distinctive characteristics of the HRI that support its adoption and use. The dataset used in the study is from the 2009 South Sudan National Household Baseline Survey. Date: 2014 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:ragrxx:v:53:y:2014:i:2:p:137-159 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/03031853.2014.915486 Access Statistics for this article Agrekon is currently edited by A. Jooste, National Agricultural Marketing Council More articles in Agrekon from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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