 Weather shocks and resilience to food insecurity: Exploring the role of gender and kinship normsImmacolata Ranucci, Donato Romano and Luca Tiberti World Development, 2025, vol. 188, issue C Abstract: Social and cultural institutions interact with environmental and individual factors, shaping resilience to external shocks. This study examines the interplay between gender-differentiated land management, kinship norms, and the effects of droughts on agricultural households’ resilience to food insecurity in rural Malawi. Female land-managed households in Matrilineal-Matrilocal villages show higher resilience with respect to other communities. However, in times of drought, these households turn out to be less resilient to food insecurity than their counterparts in other areas. In support of this result, we find evidence that, when faced with drought, female land-managed households in Matrilineal-Matrilocal communities exhibit lesser involvement in more lucrative non-farm activities and a larger decrease in livestock. The study highlights the need to consider socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental factors interactions when assessing resilience and advocates for intersectional policies enhancing women’s resilience. Keywords: Development resilience; Food security; Kinship norms; Gender; Drought; Malawi (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:188:y:2025:i:c:s0305750x24003176 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106847 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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