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Climate resilience pathways of rural households: evidence from Ethiopia

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  • Asfaw, Solomon
  • Maggio, Giuseppe
  • Palma, Alessandro

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Climate variability and extreme events continue to impose significant challenges to households, particularly to those that are less resilient. By exploring the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011, using panel data, this paper shows important socio-economic and policy determinants of households' resilience capacity. Three policy indications emerge from the analysis. First, government support programmes, such as the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), appear to sustain households' resilience by helping them to reach the level of pre-shock total consumption, but have no impact on the food-consumption resilience. Secondly, the 'selling out assets strategy' affects positively households' resilience, but only in terms of food consumption ' not total consumption. Finally, the presence of informal institutions, such as social networks providing financial support, sharply increases households' resilience by helping them to reach preshock levels of both food consumption and total consumption.

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  • Asfaw, Solomon & Maggio, Giuseppe & Palma, Alessandro, "undated". "Climate resilience pathways of rural households: evidence from Ethiopia," ESA Working Papers 288952, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:faoaes:288952
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.288952
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    1. Bekele, Adugna Eneyew & Drabik, Dusan & Dries, Liesbeth & Heijman, Wim, 2022. "Resilience of Ethiopian Agropastoral Households in the Presence of Large-Scale Land Investments," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
    2. Bekele, Adugna Eneyew & Drabik, Dusan & Dries, Liesbeth & Heijman, Wim, 2021. "Resilience of agropastoral households affected by large scale land investments: The case of Ethiopia," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315087, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Jeannette Aduhene-Chinbuah & Clement Oppong Peprah, 2024. "Multi-risk management in Ghana's agricultural sector: Strategies, actors, and conceptual shifts—a review," Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, Springer, vol. 105(4), pages 393-418, December.

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    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General

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