Coping with household-level food insecurity in drought-affected areas of Burkina Faso

Reardon, Thomas; Matlon, Peter J.; Delgado, Christopher L.

doi:10.1016/0305-750x(88)90109-x

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“…Unlike the case of permanent migrants who live in Côte d'Ivoire, the seasonal migrants and the nonmigrants have similar monetary income sources because they cope with the same agro climatic risks related to the semi-arid tropics (Reardon, Matlon, and Delgado 1988). Considering the total sample in rural Sahel, 57.6 percent of the survey households have farm activities 12 as the main source of their earnings whereas the off-farm and migration activities represent 42.4 percent.…”

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Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso

Konseiga

2006

Journal of African Economies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy 105List of Tables Table 1: Sample Structure 17 AbstractThe paper examines the basic determinants behind the process of migration from Burkina Faso to Cote d'Ivoire. It uses a detailed household survey dataset on migration, natural resource management, risk management and solidarity collected in 2000 and 2002 in Northeastern Burkina Faso. In addition, two other village and institutional level surveys were conducted. The methodology emphasizes the link between economic theories and empirical evidence, using econometric tools that are robust to the selection bias. This enables to investigate the specificities of the seasonal migration and to estimate migration incomes.The structural model of migration decision revealed the importance of migration as a mere survival strategy in the study regions. Results showed that even under the pessimistic scenario where the direct benefits of the regional integration program would go exclusively to the leading economy, households in the Sahel may benefit from an increased economic attractiveness of this destination. Owing to the fact that the migration is seasonal, the increased migration will translate into higher liquidity that enables households to overcome credit and insurance market failures and invest in their main agro pastoral activities. Additionally, the role of the unsecured livestock activity acts as an impediment to migration of the pastoralist groups. The study recommended the development of policies that address security issues through wellfunctioning rural labor market institutions and enforceable rules regarding shepherd contracts. It is also important to enforce regional laws regarding the free movement of labor.

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Section: The Income Modelmentioning

confidence: 98%

Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso

Konseiga

2006

Journal of African Economies

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“…Dercon (2001b) reports that, in a sample of rural households, 10 years after the famine, cattle holdings were still only two-thirds of what they were just before the famine of the mid-1980s. Reardon et al (1988) report that transfers in the aftermath of the 1984 drought were only equivalent to three per cent of the losses for the poorest households in the Sahel. Recent events in East Asia during the recent crisis also exposed the limitations of informal insurance and self-insurance.…”

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“…(e.g. Reardon et al 1988, Reardon 1997). Dercon and Krishnan (1996) look explicitly at the role of different constraints to enter into activities in Tanzania and Ethiopia.…”

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Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets

Dercon

2002

The World Bank Research Observer

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High income risk is part of life in developing countries. Climatic risks, economic fluctuations, but also a large number of individual-specific shocks make these households vulnerable to serious hardship. For example, details are given on the various shocks and events causing serious hardship to rural households in Ethiopia in the last twenty years. Not surprisingly for Ethiopia, climatic events are the most common cause of shocks, but many households suffer from other common or idiosyncratic shocks related to economic policy, labour or livestock.Rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risk. Households in risky environments have developed sophisticated (ex ante) risk-management and (ex post) risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance via savings and informal insurance mechanisms while formal credit and insurance markets appear to contribute only little to reducing income risk and its consequences. Despite these strategies, vulnerability to poverty linked to risk remains high. In this paper, I focus on the opportunities available to households to use risk-management and risk-coping strategies, and on the constraints on their effectiveness, by reviewing some of the recent literature on savings as insurance, income diversification and smoothing, and informal risk-sharing arrangements. Risk and lumpiness limit the opportunities to use assets as insurance. Entry constraints limit the usefulness of income diversification. Informal risk-sharing only provides limited protection, especially for some of the poor and their sustainability during periods of change is in doubt. Public safety nets are likely to be beneficial, but their impact is at times limited while they may have negative externalities on households not covered by the safety net. The paper also discusses the implications for policy as well as the information requirements to increase our understanding of vulnerability and implement better vulnerability reducing policies.

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“…These reports feature comprehensive data on village soils, land use, crops, and other aspects of rural agricultural production for selected villages on the Central Plateau (Imbs 1987;Kohler 1971;Lahuec 1980;Marchal 1983). Two in particular provide limited data on Mossi household structure from the village of Kumtaabo (Imbs 1987) and Dakola (Kohler 1971) Reardon and Matlon 1988;Reardon and Taylor 1996). This study took place during the massive Sahelian drought of 1983-1985 and compared household food security between communities in the Sahelian and Sudano-Sahelian zones of northern Burkina Faso.…”

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Documenting livelihood trajectories in the context of development interventions in northern Burkina Faso

West

2013

Journal of Political Ecology

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The northern Central Plateau of Burkina Faso has been the site of extensive development assistance since the 1980s. Thousands of hectares of degraded land have been rehabilitated through investments in Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) techniques. Comprehensive assessments of these projects have documented their beneficial impacts. This study extends these insights to consider the effects of SWC on livelihood sustainability by comparing recent household-level indicators with studies conducted twenty years earlier. Comparing quantitative data from two different points in time allows researchers to identify 'livelihood trajectories', or the general direction of either improvement or decline. The results show that although SWC investments have improved the natural capital of Mossi households, improvements in other forms of capital have accrued mostly among wealthy households.Key words: Livelihoods, development, Mossi, Burkina Faso

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Coping with household-level food insecurity in drought-affected areas of Burkina Faso

Cited by 211 publications

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Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso

Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso

Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets

Documenting livelihood trajectories in the context of development interventions in northern Burkina Faso

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