Dietary Diversity and Food Coping Strategies in Zimbabwe: Do Resilience and Food Insecurity Status Matter?

Murendo, Conrad; Aziz, Towfique; Tirivanhu, Doreen; Mapfungautsi, Rungano; Stack, J.L.; Mutambara, Solomon; Langworthy, Mark; Mafuratidze, Clayton

doi:10.1080/03670244.2020.1808784

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“…For instance, Olaimat et al [ 17 ] reported that food-related coping strategies such as eating less meals per day, consuming smaller amounts of food per day and skipping meals by adults were significantly associated with food insecurity. Similarly, Murendo et al [ 18 ] found that household dietary diversity differed based on the food security status and resilience level of household, with direct influence of the distribution of the available foods among household members such as adults and children. Given that appropriate child feeding has long term consequences on child growth, cognitive development and is associated to poor individual health outcomes even at adulthood, it is apparent that bridging the knowledge gap on the influence of household food security and child feeding practices in a local context is necessary.…”

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Household food security, child dietary diversity and coping strategies among rural households. The case of Kole District in northern Uganda

Elolu

Agako

Okello

2023

Dialogues in Health

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Household food security, child dietary diversity and coping strategies among rural households. The case of Kole District in northern Uganda

Elolu

Agako

Okello

2023

Dialogues in Health

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Household resilience and coping strategies to food insecurity: An empirical analysis from Tajikistan

Egamberdiev,

Bobojonov,

Kuhn

et al. 2024

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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By applying Resilience Index Measurement Analysis to data from Tajikistan, this paper measures food insecurity resilience capacity. Another objective of this paper is to construct and integrate coping strategies into resilience discussions. The final objective is to analyze the role of resilience capacity and coping strategy in food security with an Instrumental Variable approach. Our results generally confirm that resilience and coping strategies increase food security, determined by food expenditure, household adequacy of fruit and vegetable consumption, and household food expenditure share. Moreover, resilience capacity has a moderating role in mitigating negative impacts of shocks on food security.

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Household resilience capacity and food security: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

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Commonly, resilience against external shocks is treated as a household or community capacity. Resiliency against food insecurity is of particular importance for rural household under the impression of recent price surges and supply chain disruptions. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of household resilience capacity on food security outcomes in Kyrgyzstan, using individual, household and community datasets of the “Life in Kyrgyzstan” panel survey for several waves from 2011 to 2016. Firstly, a resilience capacity index to food insecurity was estimated through key determinants or pillars under the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) II methodology, while latent analysis was used to classify shocks. The effect of resilience capacity on food security outcomes was estimated along an instrumental variable approach. Our results suggest that resilience capacity serves to improve food security status and decrease the proneness of households to suffering from food insecurity in the presence of shocks. Furthermore, the interaction between resilience capacity and shocks was included to explain whether the negative effect of the shocks is weakened by resilience. The findings confirm that resilience capacity is able to mitigate the adverse effects of shocks on food security outcomes; moreover, it is sufficient to resist a decline in food security. Following the large contributions of social safety nets and adaptive capacity to the resilience capacity index, policy efforts should be focused on increasing income generating capacity, networking, migration, and education level of households to strengthen resilience to food insecurity.

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Dietary Diversity and Food Coping Strategies in Zimbabwe: Do Resilience and Food Insecurity Status Matter?

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Household food security, child dietary diversity and coping strategies among rural households. The case of Kole District in northern Uganda

Household food security, child dietary diversity and coping strategies among rural households. The case of Kole District in northern Uganda

Household resilience and coping strategies to food insecurity: An empirical analysis from Tajikistan

Household resilience capacity and food security: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

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