Household resilience to food insecurity: evidence from Tanzania and Uganda

Marco d’Errico (), Donato Romano and Rebecca Pietrelli ()
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Marco d’Errico: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
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Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, 2018, vol. 10, issue 4, No 20, 1033-1054

Abstract: Abstract Resilience—the capacity that ensures adverse stressors and shocks do not have long-lasting adverse consequences—has become a key topic in both scholarly and policy debates. More recently some international organizations have proposed the use of resilience to analyze food and nutrition security. The objective of the paper is twofold: (i) analyze what the determinants of household resilience to food insecurity are and (ii) assess the role played by household resilience capacity on food security outcomes. The dataset employed in the analysis is a panel of three waves of household surveys recently collected in Tanzania and Uganda. First, we estimated the FAO’s Resilience Capacity Index (RCI), combining factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Then probit models were estimated to test whether the resilience is positively related to future food security outcomes and recovery capacity after a shock occurs. In both countries, the most important dimension contributing to household resilience was adaptive capacity, which in turn depended on the level of education and on the proportion of income earners to total household members. Furthermore, household resilience was significantly and positively related to future household food security status. Finally, households featuring a higher resilience capacity index were better equipped to absorb and adapt to shocks.

Keywords: Resilience; Food security; Structural equation model; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 I32 O55 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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