Essay On Household Resilience

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Empirically there are two main approaches to assessment of household resilience to food insecurity; quantitative and qualitative. Potential synergies between both approaches has been explore mainly in poverty assessment (Kanbor, 2001). However, both approaches are without methodological challenges. The most widely recognized problem with quantitative approach to resilience measurement is that resilience is not directly observable. In order to overcome this problem, two strategies have been devised. One way is to treat resilience as a latent variable (Alinovi et al 2008 and 2010; Mulat and Nugussie 2010). Another strategy is to use observable variable as proxy for resilience (Carter et al., 2006; Keil et al., 2008).
Using the Kenyan integrated household budget survey and Palestinian public perception survey respectively Alinovi et al. (2008 and 2010) estimated resilience as a multidimensional latent variable. The household resilience was considered to be a latent variable defined according to six building blocks; social safety nets, access to public services, assets, income and food access, stability and adaptive capacity. These components are themselves latent variables and are not directly measurable. Therefore, the authors design a two-stage process to …show more content…

For instance recently Boukary, Diaw and Wünscher, (2016) adopted the strategy to study the factors affecting household resilience to food insecurity in Niger. The authors used Data from the 2010 National Survey on Households’ Vulnerability to Food Insecurity done by the National Institute of Statistics. Using PCA and following Alinovi et el (2008, 2010), the authors estimated household resilience based on four pillars; household asset, adoptive capacity, social safety net and climate change indicators. The rationale of this method is that, resilience is approximated via the index created using

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