Determinants of pastoral household resilience to food insecurity in Afar region, northeast Ethiopia

Melketo, Tagesse; Schmidt, Martin H.; Bonatti, Michelle; Sieber, Stefan; Müller, Klaus; Lana, Marcos

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104454

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“…The marginal effect values for resource, multiple income, and agripreneurship indicated that up to a certain point, for one increase in economic outcome variables, the probability of the household becoming resilient to agricultural drought increased by 0.193, 0.053, and 0.093, respectively, while holding all other factors constant. Ciani and Romano (2004) and Melketo et al. (2021) found similar results.…”

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confidence: 53%

Adaptation, coping strategies and resilience of agricultural drought in South Africa: implication for the sustainability of livestock sector

Bahta

Myeki

2021

Heliyon

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 53%

Adaptation, coping strategies and resilience of agricultural drought in South Africa: implication for the sustainability of livestock sector

Bahta

Myeki

2021

Heliyon

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“…However, a number of studies on mixed croplivestock systems suggest that household variations in asset holdings often outweigh larger-scale geographic, socio-cultural, and economic differences (Ellis and Bahiigwa, 2003;Ellis and Freeman, 2004;Tittonell et al, 2005). Our results on the other hand align with other studies more focused on agropastoral and pastoral systems that emphasize the effect of location specific factors in determining resilience (Abebe, 2020;Melketo et al, 2021). As a number of such studies indicate, context-specific factors such as climate, disaster-risk proneness, distance to market, access to irrigation, access to credit, local politics among others are important determinants of household resilience (Perez et al, 2015;Bera et al, 2020).…”

Section: Heterogeneity and Convergence In The Agropastoral And Pastoral Systems Of South-eastern Moroccosupporting

confidence: 83%

“…Nevertheless, many research challenges remain with regard to understanding and assessing the adaptive capacity and therefore resilience of farming households who live off livestock income in dryland areas. Some authors such as Abebe (2020) or Melketo et al (2021) emphasized the effect of location specific factors in determining resilience of family systems based on livestock activity. The multiple roles that livestock play in livelihood strategies and outcomes (e.g., safety capital and productive asset) and the role of complementary activities such as crop cultivation or off-farm activities, still remain important aspects that would benefit from further investigation (Alary et al, 2011).…”

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Heterogeneity of Resilience of Livelihood Strategies in Pastoral and Agropastoral Farming Systems of Rural Semi-arid to Arid Areas in Morocco

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Caulfield²,

Amsidder

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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A large proportion of rural households, particularly in the dry land areas, representative for more than 10% of the world's land surface and up to 80% in Morocco, depend for their livelihoods on livestock. They exploit livestock's capacity to live in very harsh environments using herd-mobility at multiple scale level. Understanding the multiple contributions of livestock to the household and national economy raises complex research issues and challenges linked with the multitude of goods and services derived from livestock, their interactions with other family activities, and the local and national context. The objective of our research was therefore to analyse the diversity and assess the resilience of livelihood strategies of farming households oriented to livestock using a set of data collected in the dry land areas (oases and mountainous zones) of Morocco and discuss the livelihood outcome indicators. To achieve this, we have realized a cross-sectional analysis of livelihoods and adaptive capacity, to select a set of pertinent indicators. These indicators have been developed using an adapted version of the Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) toolkit for pastoral and agropastoral household systems. Our results highlight the critical importance of livelihood diversification (off-farm diversification, livestock diversification, and crop diversification) in building household resilience and the livelihood outcomes. While livelihood strategies undoubtedly contribute to livelihood outcomes, there is also a critical iterative process, i.e., livelihood outcomes also influence the livelihood strategies at the farming households. The present work proposes an aggregated indicator of livelihood outcomes allowing us to capture the heterogeneity of living conditions of agropastoral systems by considering the main drivers of this system, i.e., mobility, livestock species, and physiological stage composition of the herd. This approach could constitute a valuable contribution to help fill the knowledge gaps that do not allow policy makers in developing contextualized rural development policies and instruments in these very harsh environments.

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“…Household resilience, a less common term in the literature, is mainly limited to access to resources, food security, assets, public services, and social safety net (Alinovi et al, 2009(Alinovi et al, , 2010Anuradha et al, 2021;Melketo et al, 2021). For instance, Anuradha et al (2021) analyzed household resilience based on social and human capital.…”

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Multilevel Resilience of Fishing Communities of Coastal Bangladesh Against Covid-19 Pandemic and 65-Day Fishing Ban

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The unusual situation that arose due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 65-day fishing ban (national policy to boost depleted fish stocks) affected the lower-income fishing communities in coastal Bangladesh. Shocks and stresses were posed, and community people adopted strategies to adapt to the changes. In the process of adaptation, social-ecological systems resilience at different levels plays a crucial role. Though resilience is acknowledged as multilevel feature, studies on the interaction between the levels while understanding communities’ responses to shock and stress are limited. Thus, in this study, we explored the shocks and stresses the fishing community faced and their views on the resilience feature at different levels (i.e., individual, household, and community level) in coastal Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic and 65-day fishing ban period. The study found that the most resilience promoting features (e.g., diversified livelihood, friendship, and network of supports) were adopted at the individual and household levels. However, positive and negative interactions were explored between resilience features at all levels. Low community-level resilience was not translated into a lack of household-level resilience, and strong individual-level resilience did not mean high household-level resilience. It was noted that the increased resilience of a particular individual or household could negatively affect community resilience. Resilience features showed inconsistent interactions within or among the three levels’ resilience features. The study also revealed that multilevel resilience features stressed the importance of combining persistence (i.e., keeping fishing as the main livelihood) and adaptation process (e.g., livelihood diversification). The study showcases the importance of considering multilevel resilience that offers insight into crucial resilience factors which would not be evident if only one level were studied. The overall finding of this study will contribute to framing governance strategies to ensure sustainable coastal management even in the time of any abrupt or expected changes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the fishing ban policy.

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Determinants of pastoral household resilience to food insecurity in Afar region, northeast Ethiopia

Cited by 23 publications

References 19 publications

Adaptation, coping strategies and resilience of agricultural drought in South Africa: implication for the sustainability of livestock sector

Adaptation, coping strategies and resilience of agricultural drought in South Africa: implication for the sustainability of livestock sector

Heterogeneity of Resilience of Livelihood Strategies in Pastoral and Agropastoral Farming Systems of Rural Semi-arid to Arid Areas in Morocco

Multilevel Resilience of Fishing Communities of Coastal Bangladesh Against Covid-19 Pandemic and 65-Day Fishing Ban

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