Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals

Brooks, Nina; Grace, Kathryn; Kristiansen, Devon; Shukla, Shraddhanand; Brown, Molly E.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102677

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“…In other contexts, a negative change in environmental conditions can encourage lower actual fertility (e.g., pregnancies or births) (Alam and Pörtner, 2018), reduce the desire to have a child (Brooks et al, 2023;Eissler et al, 2019) or reduce the ideal family size (Eissler et al, 2019). In Kenya, a poor growing season lowered the desire for children in the short term (Brooks et al, 2023); and in Tanzania, crop losses are associated with higher contraception use (Alam and Pörtner, 2018). In some contexts, this negative affect is concentrated in poorer or less endowed households.…”

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Gender, climate and landowning: Sources of variability in the weather pattern change and ideal fertility relationship in Sahelian West Africa

McLoughlin Brooks

2024

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This paper advances our understanding of the relationship between climate change and ideal fertility in Sahelian West Africa by exploring sources of variation in that relationship. Using an integrated dataset of Demographic and Health Surveys with monthly rainfall and temperature data, the analyses model dimensions of prospective ideal fertility for young, childless men and women in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Temperature, particularly in the arid climate zone, is shown to have a positive effect on ideal fertility. Landowning insulates individuals from adjusting their fertility ideals in response to change. Gender-stratified models reveal that under hotter conditions, women have a higher ideal number of children but their ideal gender composition remains relatively balanced, while men do not change their ideal number of children but show a preference for more sons. The increase in ideal fertility in response to weather change may be understood as an increasing need to generate human capital to meet the increased labour demands that climate change brings over both the short and the long term.

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“…The effects of environmental conditions vary across regions (Eissler et al, 2019) and country boundaries (Brooks et al, 2023) within sub-Saharan Africa. There are other geographical sources of variation that may also be salient.…”

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Gender, climate and landowning: Sources of variability in the weather pattern change and ideal fertility relationship in Sahelian West Africa

McLoughlin Brooks

2024

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“…We focus on regional-level COVID-19 prevalence, individual-level social capital (as measured by trust), and knowledge of COVID-19 precautions. Building on previous research on contraceptive dynamics during uncertain periods (Brooks et al 2023;Trinitapoli and Yeatman 2011) and taking individual resources and contextual-level risk exposure into account (Marteleto et al 2017), our study provides a comprehensive understanding of both individual-and contextual-level factors in shaping contraceptive behaviors during the early stage of the pandemic in low-income countries.…”

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“…This study advances previous research in two important ways: First, we adopt a longitudinal design that allows us to study changes in contraceptive use during the early stages of the pandemic. The unpredictable nature of the pandemic along with the prospect of income loss and food insecurity in low-income settings, may have prompted individuals to adopt more proactive family planning services (Brooks et al 2023;Wood et al 2021;Zimmerman et al 2022). However, this increased demand coincided with potential limitations in accessing these services due to supply shortages, fears of virus exposure, and mobility restrictions (Karp et al 2021;Lone and Ahmad 2020;Mickler et al 2021;Pillay et al 2021).…”

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COVID‐19 and Contraceptive Use in Two African Countries: Examining Conflicting Pressures on Women

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Grace,

Boyle

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Population & Development Rev

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Women in Africa may have experienced conflicting pressures during the COVID‐19 pandemic. While the unpredictable nature of the pandemic was prompting some women to delay pregnancies, the pandemic was potentially limiting access to reproductive health services due to supply shortages, fears of virus exposure, and mobility restrictions. In this study, we used longitudinal data from Kenya and Burkina Faso and applied a multilevel perspective to better understand the factors contributing to change or persistence in contraceptive use during the early months of the pandemic. We found a marginal increase in contraceptive uptake in the early days of the pandemic. Multilevel logistic regression results revealed that interpersonal trust and accurate knowledge of COVID‐19 precautions were associated with a greater likelihood of initiating contraception. These factors appeared to have provided women with confidence to navigate the complicated COVID‐19 landscape. At the same time, we observed a decrease in contraceptive use in regions with high COVID‐19 cases, suggesting the virus was limiting access to contraception in some contexts. These findings highlighted the need for public health officials to ensure that women have the necessary knowledge and ability to safely access contraception during public health crises, when overall demand for contraception may be increasing.

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“…In particular, few studies have attended to the linkages between individuals’ exposure to climate‐related events and fertility, especially in low‐ and middle‐income countries (Grace 2017; Brooks et al. 2023). Droughts are one of the most experienced climate‐related events, affecting an estimated 2.3 billion people in the year 2021 (United Nations 2022).…”

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The Relationships between Drought Exposure, Fertility Preferences, and Contraceptive Behaviors: A Multicountry Study

Somefun,

Banougnin,

Smith‐Greenaway

2024

Studies in Family Planning

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The interplay between population dynamics and the environment has long interested demographers. Although studies have explored how climate patterns affect macrolevel population processes, such as mortality and migration, little is known about their impact on individual‐level demographic behaviors. This study fills this research gap by examining the linkages between exposure to drought and women's fertility preferences and contraceptive behaviors in sub‐Saharan Africa. We analyze data from the Demographic and Health Surveys Program, focusing on 17 countries in East, Southern, and West Africa. We investigate whether women's recent exposure to drought episodes in their community affects their fertility preferences and modern contraceptive use. Generally, the findings show that drought is relevant to understanding women's fertility preferences and behaviors in the vast majority of countries; however, drought exposure has variable impacts. Moreover, whereas in some countries, drought exposure encourages contraceptive behaviors that align with women's preferences, in select countries it is associated with behavior that is misaligned with women's stated preferences. Overall, the study emphasizes the importance of examining climate events as complex forces that have localized meanings for demographic outcomes.

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Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals

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Gender, climate and landowning: Sources of variability in the weather pattern change and ideal fertility relationship in Sahelian West Africa

Gender, climate and landowning: Sources of variability in the weather pattern change and ideal fertility relationship in Sahelian West Africa

COVID‐19 and Contraceptive Use in Two African Countries: Examining Conflicting Pressures on Women

The Relationships between Drought Exposure, Fertility Preferences, and Contraceptive Behaviors: A Multicountry Study

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