Resilience to food insecurity and gender differential decomposition in the Gambia

Atozou, B.;

Resilience to food insecurity and gender differential decomposition in the Gambia

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Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 50 p.

Author Atozou, B.;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Category Working paper

ISBN 978-92-5-137483-2

Series title FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper

Series number 23-02

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Synopsis (short abstract) The analysis of household resilience to food insecurity has become a key technical and evidence-based policy instrument for better tailoring development and humanitarian intervention designs. International development agencies must strengthen the capacity of vulnerable households to anticipate, cope with and adapt to shocks and stressors. Despite the humanitarian and development scope of household resilience strengthening, most resilience academic research and policies focused on protracted crises countries. Moreover, too little attention has been paid to in-depth gender inequality analysis in household resilience to food insecurity, and household food security. This paper aims to (i) analyse the key drivers of household resilience to food insecurity and (ii) assess differences in resilience capacity and food security indexes across male and female-headed households, and identify key drivers of these differentials in national, urban, and rural areas in the Gambia, by using Gambian Integrated Household Surveys on consumption expenditure and poverty-level assessment 2015–2016.

The findings of this paper have been summarized in the policy brief Policy orientations for food security resilience with gender sensitivity in the Gambia.

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Atozou, B. 2023. Resilience to food insecurity and gender differential decomposition in the Gambia. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, 23-02. Rome, FAO.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc3799en

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