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Does Early Cash-Based Interventions in a Food Crisis Enhance Resilience? Evidence from Niger

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  • Tumusiime, Emmanuel

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This study examined how households’ responded in the Tillabery region, Niger given early cash transfer intervention and the impact on household food access and ability to cope and recover from a food crisis. Data was also collected from households that did not benefit from the cash transfer program for comparative purposes. Food access indicators are linked to the cash transfer program and structural characteristics of households and the relationships estimated using a propensity weighted econometric model. Results indicate that early cash transfer intervention had a positive impact on staving off short term food deficiency and reducing vulnerability but limited in contributing to longer lasting impact. The results also demonstrate that certain social-structural characteristics of a household, namely, more economically active adults, male head of a household and concerted decision making, are important for improved food access status. Focusing safety net programs based on these household characteristics could benefit efforts to better target those most vulnerable.

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  • Tumusiime, Emmanuel, 2013. "Does Early Cash-Based Interventions in a Food Crisis Enhance Resilience? Evidence from Niger," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 151270, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea13:151270
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.151270
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    1. Stoeffler, Quentin & Mills, Bradford, 2014. "Households’ investments in durable and productive assets in Niger: quasi-experimental evidences from a cash transfer project," 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota 170212, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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