The role of nonfarm income in coping with the effects of drought in southern Mozambique

Cunguara, Benedito; Langyintuo, Augustine S.; Darnhofer, I.

doi:10.1111/j.1574-0862.2011.00542.x

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“…Nonetheless, some studies observed such activities increase during drought (Cunguara et al 2011) especially in market-orientated communities where there is more continuous trading activity. Thus economic activities may prove a more resilient coping option where there is strong market-access but may leave households in more customary-orientated communities vulnerable to repeated drought events.…”

Section: Resources Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Market access is widely identified as important in determining levels of diversification (see for example Motsholapheko et al 2011;Cunguara et al 2011;Paavola 2008) yet caveats remain. The level of customary activities and market opportunities must be considered for livelihood diversification policies to be successful.…”

Section: Implications For Coping and Adaptation Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whilst households with diverse long-term livelihood strategies are known to be better positioned to offset climate risk than those who rely on non-farm work as short-term coping strategies (Cunguara et al 2011), this success depends on existing customary livelihoods. Limited market opportunities restrict households in…”

Section: Diversification Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The literature calls for adaptation policies that target the marginal in society, such as women, children, elderly, or the poor (Cunguara et al 2011;Tanner and Mitchell 2008), arguing that these groups will remain most vulnerable. Yet these groups do not respond to climatic hazards homogeneously: the poor, or the elderly, or the less educated adapt their coping strategy depending on the hazard experienced.…”

Section: Implications For Coping and Adaptation Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Berman

Quinn

Paavola

2014

Climate and Development

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This paper investigates what drives household coping strategies in rural Uganda under different climatic hazards. Rural households in sub-Saharan Africa draw on various coping strategies to reduce the impact of climatic hazards on their livelihoods. Research to date provides only limited understanding of how the coping strategy portfolio of changes depending on the climatic stress. Using empirical data from Uganda, this research contributes to this gap by 1) exploring how household coping strategy relates to household characteristics and livelihood activity;and 2) how these coping strategies vary depending on the hazard. Coping strategy is found to be hazard specific for households that lack market-orientated activities, whereas those with marketaccess rely on economic activities regardless of hazard. The implications that choice of coping strategy has on future adaptation are discussed. To maintain and improve the livelihoods and coping strategies of those most vulnerable to climatic variability and change, policies that advocate diversification away from a sole reliance on customary activities need to recognise the level and opportunity for market-based activities. These interventions must account for different sensitivities to different hazards as well as the homogeneity of the community in order to effectively support rural communities to cope with climate variability.

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Section: Resources Driversmentioning

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Section: Diversification Driversmentioning

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Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

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2014

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“…On-farm and off-farm activities can be complementary in assisting households to manage risk. In other contexts off-farm income has been important in helping small-scale farmers cope with shocks in India (Gaurav 2015), Mozambique (Cunguara et al 2011), and South America (Bebbington 1999). In Odisha, vulnerable farming communities are characterized by dependence https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss4/art3/ on subsistence rice farming and limited off-farm opportunities (Panda 2016).…”

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Resilience to hazards: rice farmers in the Mahanadi Delta, India

Duncan¹,

Tompkins²,

Dash³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. Developing country deltas are important food producing areas and are home to large numbers of subsistence farmers. In particular, rice farmers dominate the populous deltas of South and Southeast Asia and face frequent climate hazards that have short-and long-term impacts on rice production and livelihoods. The aim of this study is to identify and explain proximal and ultimate factors (land access, cultural practices, and institutional support) that affect rice farmer resilience, that is, to explain why some farmers are more sensitive to climate shocks, why some farmers suffer long-term impacts from climate shocks, and what underlying "ultimate" factors reproduce this vulnerability over time. We undertake this analysis using qualitative interviews and household survey data from two districts in the Mahanadi Delta, Odisha, India. We show that climate hazards cause rice production shocks that are problematic for farmers because rice is predominantly used for household consumption in a context of unreliable off-farm income sources and a lack of insurance and credit. Our research emphasizes that "ultimate" drivers interact with the current mode of rice cultivation to reproduce a low resilience farming state. We argue that agricultural development interventions seeking to make rice farming more resilient to climate hazards should focus on boosting productivity and shock-resistance, but also be cognizant of the system within which rice farming is practiced and the contextual "ultimate" factors that reproduce vulnerability.

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Land quality, income, and poverty among rural households in the North Central Region, Vietnam

Nguyen

Tran

Hoang

et al. 2023

Poverty & Public Policy

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While the role of agricultural land size in rural Vietnam is well established for rural livelihoods, no evidence for the importance of land quality has been provided thus far in the literature. In the current study of the North Central Region of Vietnam, we examine how land quality affects crop income, total income, and poverty using secondary data from a sample of 2,468 households. In particular, we used an instrumental variable method to address the potential endogeneity of land quality. We provide the first evidence that land quality increases local household income and the likelihood of escaping poverty. The finding is robust even after accounting for the endogeneity of land quality and controlling for various important household characteristics. Notably, we show the mechanism by which land quality positively affects income and poverty reduction through its positive effect on crop income. Also, our study reveals that land fragmentation is negatively linked with land quality. This could be explained by the fact that fragmented land receives less investment (e.g., fertilizers or irrigation), resulting in lower land quality. The study offers a useful implication that reducing fragmentation may help local households invest more in land, thereby increasing crop income, which in turn improves their economic well‐being.

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The role of nonfarm income in coping with the effects of drought in southern Mozambique

Cited by 61 publications

References 23 publications

Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Resilience to hazards: rice farmers in the Mahanadi Delta, India

Land quality, income, and poverty among rural households in the North Central Region, Vietnam

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