Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural Malawi

McCarthy, Nancy; Brubaker, Josh; Fuente, Alejandro de la

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-7769

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“…In Malawi, the high proportion of protected areas often results in poaching and farming in and around such conservation areas, as highlighted by the political ecologists. Rising poverty rates which disproportionately affect rural areas in Malawi [43] suggest increasing pressure on the protected areas [44,45]. Additionally, the rapidly changing climate, as evidenced by recent floods and droughts [46], call for a thorough re-strategizing in management regimes.…”

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Spatial and Temporal Change of Land Cover in Protected Areas in Malawi: Implications for Conservation Management

2022

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Protected areas (PAs) transform over time due to natural and anthropogenic processes, resulting in the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. As current and projected climatic trends are poised to pressurize the sustainability of PAs, analyses of the existing perturbations are crucial for providing valuable insights that will facilitate conservation management. In this study, land cover change, landscape characteristics, and spatiotemporal patterns of the vegetation intensity in the Kasungu National Park (area = 2445.10 km2) in Malawi were assessed using Landsat data (1997, 2008 and 2018) in a Fuzzy K-Means unsupervised classification. The findings reveal that a 21.12% forest cover loss occurred from 1997 to 2018: an average annual loss of 1.09%. Transition analyses of the land cover changes revealed that forest to shrubs conversion was the main form of land cover transition, while conversions from shrubs (3.51%) and bare land (3.48%) to forest over the two decades were comparatively lower, signifying a very low rate of forest regeneration. The remaining forest cover in the park was aggregated in a small land area with dissimilar landscape characteristics. Vegetation intensity and vigor were lower mainly in the eastern part of the park in 2018. The findings have implications for conservation management in the context of climate change and the growing demand for ecosystem services in forest-dependent localities.

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Spatial and Temporal Change of Land Cover in Protected Areas in Malawi: Implications for Conservation Management

2022

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“…The adversarial impacts of incomes shocks result in 3% decrease in annual earnings in Ethiopia [64]. In 2011, drought in the Horn of Africa contributed to 30% of productivity failures, which resulted in a consumption decline by 15% in Ethiopia [65][66][67][68]. The 2015 El Niño-induced drought caused crop losses estimated from 50 to 90% in some Ethiopian regions and plunged over 27 million people into food insecurity, representing nearly 20.5% of households, of which 18.1 million required food support in 2016.…”

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The Role of Agriculture and Non-Farm Economy in Addressing Food Insecurity in Ethiopia: A Review

2021

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In Ethiopia, famine and extreme poverty are a result of insufficient food relief, poor macroeconomic factors, climate shocks, undiversified livelihoods based on low productivity in rain-fed agriculture, coupled with institutional incapacity. To serve as a context, this paper provides a comprehensive review of the conceptual framework of human development and capability paradigm to food security. In addition, it highlights evidence and a comparative analysis of the Asian green revolution experience, and places emphasis on sustainable and intersectoral growth through agricultural transformation and promotion of rural non-farm economy agenda to reverse the trends of protracted food crises in Ethiopia. Rapid, science-led, and employment-intensive agricultural growth, accompanied by the promotion of the rural non-farm sector, is of great importance to the rural economy. These will bring about farm sector competitiveness and enhanced productivity, environmental outcomes, acceleration of human development, new opportunities provided to the small-scale food producers, and desirable changes to the rural landscape. The study further introduces a brief analysis of the prominent role of social protection instruments in strengthening food entitlements and basic capabilities, including individual agencies. It suggests that actualizing sustainable food security and hastening human development under Ethiopia’s exclusive settings require the recognition of the rural economic heterogeneity as well as holistic and pragmatic policies, which promote sustainable and inclusive growth.

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“…In developing economies, a significant proportion of the population lives in rural areas, and their livelihoods are reliant on agriculture and natural resources, exposing them to greater risks and shocks (Townsend, 2015;McCarthy et al, 2016). These households are often subjected to extreme shocks of different natures, which can be categorised as idiosyncratic or covariate.…”

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Using Multidimensional Poverty Measure to Target Right Beneficiaries to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal-1 in India

Khosla,

Jena

2023

Indian Journal of Human Development

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Shocks are responsible for significant setbacks in development progress because it persistently inflicts a negative impact on livelihood. As a result, those who are poor continue to be poor, and those who are not poor become vulnerable to falling into poverty. The analysis of the link between risks and vulnerability to poverty in developing countries is a major focus of development policy to ensure the resilience of vulnerable households. However, there is a lack of research in India that examines the potential impact of shocks on poverty and future deprivation. The objective of this study is to estimate vulnerability to multidimensional poverty (VMDP) and analyse the factors that lead to loss of well-being after experiencing adverse events in rural Odisha. Using survey data from 479 households, the study first estimated multidimensional poverty (MDP), adopting a counting approach. Secondly, the estimation of VMDP is performed using the three-step feasible generalised least squares approach. The results show that 55% of the surveyed households are vulnerable to MDP in rural Odisha. It is also observed that 35% of currently poor households are likely to remain poor and 20% of non-poor households are at risk of sliding into poverty. The study suggests that poverty alleviation policies should cover not just those in poverty today but also those at risk of becoming poor in the near future.

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Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural Malawi

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Spatial and Temporal Change of Land Cover in Protected Areas in Malawi: Implications for Conservation Management

Spatial and Temporal Change of Land Cover in Protected Areas in Malawi: Implications for Conservation Management

The Role of Agriculture and Non-Farm Economy in Addressing Food Insecurity in Ethiopia: A Review

Using Multidimensional Poverty Measure to Target Right Beneficiaries to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal-1 in India

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