Livelihood Systems

Susanna Davies
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Susanna Davies: University of Sussex

Chapter 7 in Adaptable Livelihoods, 1996, pp 137-175 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines how livelihood systems in the Inner Niger Delta and the surrounding drylands have evolved from being highly resilient and insensitive to food insecurity before the drought of the early 1970s, to their current state of low resilience and high sensitivity. Resilience and sensitivity are, it will be recalled from Chapter 2, two dimensions of vulnerability or its opposite, security. The chapter demonstrates: how different livelihood systems achieved food security in the past and the extent to which the resilience of local systems to stress has declined with successive cycles of drought, whilst their sensitivity has increased; how these livelihood systems now achieve food security and what the precise bundle of sources of and calls on entitlements is for each system in a ‘normal’ (but post–drought) year; the nature and extent of seasonal vulnerability to food insecurity faced by different livelihood systems.

Keywords: Food Security; Food Insecurity; Livelihood System; Niger Delta; Wild Food (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24409-6_7

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